MAdD Posted July 11, 2018 Share #1 Posted July 11, 2018 Hi all, i've setup my XPEnology on HP Microserver Gen8 which is running ESXi 6.5 u2. I provisioned my data drive at 1.5 TB, but now i'm running out of diskspace. Can i extend this disk to 2 TB (using 2 * 3TB disk in ESXi) easily in DSM? Or is the best way to create a second disk (0.5 TB) and add this disk to XPEnonlgy (DSM)? thanks in advance for the answers! MAdD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 MAdD Posted July 30, 2018 Author Share #2 Posted July 30, 2018 eventually got this to work thank to the following url: Extend VM Disk for XPEnology the only thing i did was Create 2nd volume Move all data to 2nd volume open SSH en resize partition Extend Raid Group just for info! MAdD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 IG-88 Posted July 11, 2018 Share #3 Posted July 11, 2018 if you just have a basic disk in dsm then your way without backup/restore to a new bigger virtual disk would be going over to JBOD mode where disks are just chained (no redundancy like the basic disk), the equivalent to that on a normal linux might be lvm volume with 2 (different) disks, after "glueing" the partitions together as one the file system can be extended to use the newly added space (dsm does that as JBOD mode) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 flyride Posted July 11, 2018 Share #4 Posted July 11, 2018 If you are not using DSM to provide storage redundancy, why are you using it in the first place vs. a Linux fileshare or Docker host? You could theoretically use vSAN to achieve redundancy in the VMWare space (again DSM seems useless at that point). Like IG-88 says, you can provision on two datastores and the JBOD them together in DSM, but there is no redundancy. If you have a 1.5TB volume on a 3TB datastore, and you want a 2TB volume on a 3TB datastore, it's not difficult to add space to your VMDK, then use mdadm and btrfs/ext tools to expand the disk from command line. Another option is to create 2TB VMDK on the 2nd 3TB datastore, convert the volume to a RAID1, expand the 1.5TB VMDK to 2TB, repair which will automatically expand the volume, then drop the member on the 2nd datastore. You will then have a "critical" RAID1 which is the same as a Basic volume, you then can get rid of the error message with mdadm --grow -n 1 --force /dev/mdX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Dfds Posted July 30, 2018 Share #5 Posted July 30, 2018 The question(s) in this topic have been answered and/or the topic author has resolved their issue. This topic is now closed. If you have other questions, please open a new topic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Hi all,
i've setup my XPEnology on HP Microserver Gen8 which is running ESXi 6.5 u2.
I provisioned my data drive at 1.5 TB, but now i'm running out of diskspace.
Can i extend this disk to 2 TB (using 2 * 3TB disk in ESXi) easily in DSM?
Or is the best way to create a second disk (0.5 TB) and add this disk to XPEnonlgy (DSM)?
thanks in advance for the answers!
MAdD
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