Re: [zfs-discuss] LUN expansion choices

2012-11-14 Thread Peter Tribble
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Karl Wagner k...@mouse-hole.com wrote: On 2012-11-13 17:42, Peter Tribble wrote: Given storage provisioned off a SAN (I know, but sometimes that's what you have to work with), what's the best way to expand a pool? Specifically, I can either grow existing

Re: [zfs-discuss] LUN expansion choices

2012-11-13 Thread Karl Wagner
On 2012-11-13 17:42, Peter Tribble wrote: Given storage provisioned off a SAN (I know, but sometimes that's what you have to work with), what's the best way to expand a pool? Specifically, I can either grow existing LUNs, a]or add new LUNs. As an example, If I have 24x 2TB LUNs, and

Re: [zfs-discuss] LUN expansion choices

2012-11-13 Thread Brian Wilson
Not sure if this will make it to the list, but I'll try... On 11/13/12, Peter Tribble wrote: Given storage provisioned off a SAN (I know, but sometimes that's what you have to work with), what's the best way to expand a pool? Specifically, I can either grow existing LUNs, a]or add new

Re: [zfs-discuss] LUN expansion choices

2012-11-13 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 1:35 AM, Brian Wilson brian.wil...@doit.wisc.edu wrote: So it depends on your setup. In your case if it's at all painful to grow the LUNs, what I'd probably do is allocate new 4TB LUNs - and replace your 2TB LUNs with them one at a time with zpool replace, and wait for