Storage Spaces question
Hi.. I'm a newbie and I need some help..
- I created a storage pool called images, the capacity of this HDD is 500 GB
- Then I create a Virtual Disk (Simple / Thin ) with a capacity of 2.00 TB
- THE PHYSICAL IS 500GB
my issue is that that even though the capacity is 2 TB, I can only use up to 500, I read somewhere that it doesn't matter, that I can add another physical to the pool and somehow with this new disk add that capacity to virtual disk and problem solved..
Well I have no IDEA how to do that, any help will be appreciated..
Maurice.
- I created a storage pool called images, the capacity of this HDD is 500 GB
- Then I create a Virtual Disk (Simple / Thin ) with a capacity of 2.00 TB
- THE PHYSICAL IS 500GB
my issue is that that even though the capacity is 2 TB, I can only use up to 500, I read somewhere that it doesn't matter, that I can add another physical to the pool and somehow with this new disk add that capacity to virtual disk and problem solved..
Well I have no IDEA how to do that, any help will be appreciated..
Maurice.
David Johnson, CD
you need to add drives to increase it's capacity. What you have set is the MAXIMUM size of 2TB
Hi,
Yes, you need to add the drives then add it to the existing storage pool. See this video which will helps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd7pZfmu4QU
Yes, you need to add the drives then add it to the existing storage pool. See this video which will helps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd7pZfmu4QU
The drives can be added to the pool using PowerShell.
Add-PhysicalDisk –PhysicalDisks PhysicalDisk5 –StoragePoolFriendlyName PoolName
Replace the disk name and the pool name with the one that you have.
Add-PhysicalDisk –PhysicalDisks PhysicalDisk5 –StoragePoolFriendlyName PoolName
Replace the disk name and the pool name with the one that you have.
ASKER
Thank you all, specially the you tube by:Radhakrishnan R very nice..
BUT... I created the Virtual Disk (Simple / Thin ) with a capacity of 2.00 TB, and in reality it doesn't have 2 tb, when I add the HD and add that to the pool that means that the VD will "Automagically" find the extra space newly added ?
Thank you all...
BUT... I created the Virtual Disk (Simple / Thin ) with a capacity of 2.00 TB, and in reality it doesn't have 2 tb, when I add the HD and add that to the pool that means that the VD will "Automagically" find the extra space newly added ?
Thank you all...
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Thank you ALL, I wish I can give 100 TB of point to everyone, is a hard thing to start doing something but is great when there is people like you willing to lend a hand to the newbies...