adding disks to powerstore

PowerStore doesn't have the concept of pools, all disk configuration is done automatically.  As soon as you add the drives PowerStore OS will add them to the available capacity in the system.

Chris is right, the disk add happens automatically, even a full enclosure filled with drives wont take more then 10 minutes to recognize all the space into the pool.

Hi Chris

can i add multiple drives at once when expanding storage?

BR

Ingvar

yes

Same capacity after adding 5 disks & the new disks were healthy

I've added NvME disks of 3.8 TB to pS500t , and wait about 4 hours and the pool desn't increase. The new disks are marked healthy ,  but encryption says:

Hello eromerou,

What is your powerstore OS version? Did you add the drives to your NvME enclosure? How many drives are you adding to the system?

@DELL-Sam L​ 3.6.1.0 (Release, Build 2261541, 2024-03-15 07:00:16, Retail) 

the new disks are 11 NVMe SSD 3.8 TB , the system has previous 6 disks of NVMe SSD of 1,9 TB

Hello eromerou,

Do you have just a single disk enclosure or do you have a second disk enclosure?

@DELL-Sam L​ same enclosure

Hello eromerou,

All the drive are online based on the photo that you have provided. Have you gone to Go to PowerStore > Storage > Volumes. From there you can select the volume and click modify and expand the volume size.

I am having the same issue. Were you ever successful in getting the storage to add? I am stuck at Encryption Status: Not Encrypted

Hello Topgun964,

Which powerstore system do you have? What is your current os version on your powerstore? What kid of drives did you add and in what slots were the new drives added?