VSA - latest 13.1 (attaching ISCSI lun's and extending them)

[BostjanUNIJA]

Hi.
In Virtual LAB i have setup latest VSA and attached ISCSI LUN and created REPO.
I wanted to test the scenario where ISCSI LUN is running out of space, and if you expand LUN size how can you then expand it inside VSA?
Is that even possible or currently not supported?

[vnikiforov]

Hello, Bostjan,

Not supported at the moment. Growing the LUN on the storage side won't help: 13.1 has no way to extend an existing volume and its file system on the appliance. Managing Storage only lets you attach, add, rescan, unmount and detach devices.

To get more capacity today, attach a second LUN, add it as new storage, and register it in the console as another repository, for example as an extent of a scale-out backup repository next to the existing one. That is the scenario the drive expansion feature in 13.1 covers.

Extending existing storage in place is planned for future versions.

[BostjanUNIJA]

Thank you for your reply.