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Shrinking storage pools, Expand wizard—select back-end lu(s) screen – HP SAN Virtualization Services Platform User Manual

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3.

Select Manage > Expand. The Expand wizard opens to the Select Back-End LU(s) screen and
displays the list of available back-end LUs.

Figure 18 Expand wizard—Select Back-End LU(s) screen

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4.

If you do not want to add a back-end LU to the storage pool, skip to step 9.

5.

If you would like to select a back-end LU from a folder, navigate to the folder in the tree on the
left of the screen. The Select Back-End LU(s) screen displays the list of back-end LUs in the selected
folder.

6.

Select a back-end LU that you want to add to the storage pool. Back-end LUs that already belong
to storage pools are not selectable.

7.

Click Add. The back-end LU you selected appears in the lower section of the screen. If you want
to deselect your back-end LU, select the back-end LU in the lower section, and click Remove.

8.

Repeat steps 5 through 7 to add more back-end LUs as necessary.

9.

Click Next. The Select stripe set(s) screen appears.

10.

Select any available stripe sets that you want to add to the pool.

11.

Click Next. A confirmation screen appears.

12.

Click Finish. The back-end LUs you selected are added to the storage pool.

Shrinking storage pools

You can remove from a storage pool any back-end LU or stripe set not being used for virtual disk
allocation.

CAUTION:

Make sure that the back-end LU or stripe set to be removed from the pool is not being used by a
virtual disk.

To remove a single back-end LU from a storage pool:

Working with storage pools

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