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Workspace IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem
Created by Guest
Created on May 22, 2017

RELATED IDEAS

Ability to expand existing mdisk by adding a single disk

Allow an existing mdisk to be expanded.
An existing mdisk RAID 5/6 or DRAID would be able to be expanded by adding a single disk.
An existing mdisk RAID 10 would be able to be expanded by adding a pair of disks.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jan 17, 2020

    The functionality to enable this would be the same as what's required to allow reduction of an mdisk by any rational number of drives, or even in-place RAID level changes. Reshaping an array is a basic function that's been available in other solutions for 15 years.

  • Guest
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    |     Aug 29, 2019

    Now that customers are forced to use DRAID, the ability to expand an MDISK is a must. With the size of current drives, it is very difficult to purchase a large amount of disks to build a large MDISK on each purchase. It is impossible to justify reserving 2 expensive NVMe drives for redundancy every time the storage is expanded.

  • Guest
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    |     Jul 3, 2019

    This functionally is a must, finding out this limitation after purchasing a brand new V7000 GEN 3 was absolutely shocking. This is a very important feature to have.

  • Guest
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    |     Jul 13, 2018

    We need this functionality, been waiting for it for 6 years.

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