Increase device meta size on DMX4

No. The whole meta is either concat or striped. You can't concat devices to a striped meta And you can't form meta out of existing metavolumes


Cloning, just like SRDF requires same metavolume structure. You can clone if both source and target share same number of members, same striping. Src and Tgt may have different sizes (since members may have different size) but structure is the same.

Open Replicator may give you an help since you can push your existing meta to a different storage regardless of meta structure. But you need another storage

If you don't have another storage but can form another (bigger) metavolume you can use host-based migration tools.

EMC offers Open Migrator. This may help you (but obviously requires a license and you have to install software on your hosts).

Another option may be using your existing volume manager. But obviously you need an existing volume manager

thanks for the reply. I thought the same but was checking. I am not inclined on involving the server. so will go with the standard meta stripe expansion using protected bcv. It would be easy if there was an option to copy to a larger clone without meta member restrictions. all these devices are also in srdf. so whole of proccess and time for this change. thanks again for your help