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March 14th, 2023 03:00
Expand disk group grayed in ME4012
Hello,
we have a ME4012 storage server where we created one diskgroup using 6 available disks, and then created 2 volumes on it.
Now we added 2 disks to our ME4012 storage and we were trying to expand de diskgroup.
The thing is that the Expand option appears grayed so we cannot apply it.
How could we expand the diskgroup in order to expand the volumes created on it ?
These volumes are connected to a vCenter.
Thanks in advance,
Asier
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DELL-Chris H
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March 14th, 2023 08:00
Sarenet,
I believe the issue you are seeing was seen prior to the release of firmware G280, but what you can try is using CTRL + Select the Drives manually and it will allow to expand. If you are not able to select them manually and add them to the disk group, then we will need to look at the logs from your ME4024 to see what is going on.
Lastly, after getting it resolved, and it was behind in firmware, you may want to consider updating it.
Let me know what you see.
Sarenet
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March 15th, 2023 04:00
Hello Chris,
our ME4012 version is: GT280R006-02
When you say to select disks using "CTRL +", in which window of the Powervault Manager should we do it ?
Regards,
Asier
DELL-Chris H
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March 15th, 2023 05:00
Sarenet,
After going over the information you provided and wanted to confirm something with you. Specifically how many drives are you adding, as it looks like 6? I ask as I believe the minimum is 8, so may be greyed due to not meeting requirements.
What I would like to do, to not get ahead of ourselves, is to pull and upload a support bundle. Once you do, if you would upload it upload. dell. com and then private message me the svc tag used to upload so I may locate and review them.