Re: Revisiting the LD Expansion story with a large boot disk (>2Tb)

Hi everyone,
For the record (and as suggested by Grzegorz Bakalarski off-list), I 
rebooted the server and went into the WebBIOS. The 4Tb drives showed up as 
a 2Tb drive group in a RAID-1 config.. There was no option to resize or 
expand the RAID group..
Any other ideas?
Kind regards,
Vincent


On Tue, 22 Sep 2015, [email protected] wrote:

>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have a T410 that used to have 2x2Tb as a LD boot drive (raid-1 config, 
> MegaRAID SAS 9271-8i). I replaced the 2Tb drives with 4Tb drives one after 
> the other. The Boot LD still shows up as 2Tb and I'd like to create another 
> LD in the remaining space (so that the boot LD remains under 2Tb) but it 
> seems MegaCli won't let me..
>
> Here's the LD info:
> 	# megaclisas-status
> 	-- Controller information --
> 	-- ID | H/W Model                  | RAM    | Temp | Firmware
> 	c0    | LSI MegaRAID SAS 9271-8i   | 1024MB | 75C  | FW: 23.33.0-0023
> 	[...]
>
> 	-- Array information --
> 	-- ID | Type   |    Size |  Strpsz |   Flags | DskCache |   Status | 
> OS Path | InProgress
> 	c0u0  | RAID-1 |   1817G |  256 KB | ADRA,WT |  Enabled |  Optimal | 
> /dev/sda | None
> 	[...]
>
> The drives are twice as big as the LD:
> 	# megaclisas-status|grep c0u0
> 	[...]
> 	c0u0p0  | HDD  | WD-WCC4E0344739WDC WD40EFRX-68WT0N0 80.00A80 | 3.637 
> TB | Online, Spun Up | 6.0Gb/s  | 36C  | [252:4]  | 17
> 	c0u0p1  | HDD  | WD-WCC4E0346931WDC WD40EFRX-68WT0N0 80.00A80 | 3.637 
> TB | Online, Spun Up | 6.0Gb/s  | 37C  | [252:5]  | 18
>
> This LD is the boot LD:
> 	# MegaCli -AdpBootDrive -get -a0
>
> 	Adapter 0: Boot Virtual Drive - #0 (target id - 0).
>
> 	# MegaCli -LDInfo -L0 -a0
>
> 	Adapter 0 -- Virtual Drive Information:
> 	Virtual Drive: 0 (Target Id: 0)
> 	Name                :
> 	RAID Level          : Primary-1, Secondary-0, RAID Level Qualifier-0
> 	Size                : 1.817 TB
> 	Sector Size         : 512
> 	Is VD emulated      : Yes
> 	Mirror Data         : 1.817 TB
> 	State               : Optimal
> 	Strip Size          : 256 KB
> 	Number Of Drives    : 2
> 	Span Depth          : 1
>
> When I tried adding another LD to the boot drive group, I got this:
>
> 	# MegaCli -CfgLdAdd -r1[252:4,252:5] -sz10GB -a0
>
> 	Exit Code: 0x1a
>
> ( 0x1a means the maximum number of LD's has been reached.)
>
> In a similar fashion, LD expansion shows up as impossible:
>
> 	# MegaCli -getLdExpansionInfo -L0 -a0
>
> 	Virtual Disk: 0 (Target Id: 0)
> 	Expansion                                                : Not 
> Possible
>
> 	Exit Code: 0x00
>
> 	# MegaCli -LdExpansion -p50 -dontExpandArray -L0 -a0
>
> 	Expansion of Virtual Drive 0 on Adapter 0 is not possible due to 
> space limitation.
>
> 	Exit Code: 0x00
>
> Is there a way to solve this in the current configuration or am I stuck with 
> an LD/Drive Group I cannot expand?
>
> My desired configuration would be to have two LD's on the two 4Tb drives in 
> an RAID-1 so none of them would be above 2Tb..
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Vincent
>