{"id":15150,"date":"2013-07-03T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=15150"},"modified":"2013-07-03T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T12:30:00","slug":"adding-a-disk-to-a-sofs-clustered-storage-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=15150","title":{"rendered":"Adding A Disk To A SOFS Clustered Storage Pool"},"content":{"rendered":"

Say you need to add a disk to a Scale-Out File Server where you are using Storage Spaces on a JBOD.  You add some disks to the JBOD \u2026 and then what?  You browse into Failover Clustering and there\u2019s no way to add a disk there.<\/p>\n

Instead, open up Server Manager, connected to on of the SOFS nodes:<\/p>\n

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  1. Browse to File And Storage Services > Volumes > Storage Pools.<\/li>\n
  2. You should see the new disks here as Primordial devices.  Right-click on the storage pool you want to expand, not the primordial devices.  Select Add Physical Disk.<\/li>\n
  3. Select the disks and choose the allocation (hot spare, etc).  <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    That\u2019s that.  There\u2019s no painful expansion process as in RAID.  You now have new raw space that the storage pool will use as required.<\/p>\n

    Technorati Tags: Windows Server 2012<\/a>,Windows Server 2012 R2<\/a>,Storage<\/a>,Failover Clustering<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Say you need to add a disk to a Scale-Out File Server where you are using Storage Spaces on a JBOD.  You add some disks to the JBOD \u2026 and then what?  You browse into Failover Clustering and there\u2019s no way to add a disk there. Instead, open up Server Manager, connected to on of … Continue reading “Adding A Disk To A SOFS Clustered Storage Pool”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[63,99,118,120],"class_list":["post-15150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-server","tag-failover-clustering","tag-storage","tag-windows-server-2012","tag-windows-server-2012-r2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}