Re: [zfs-discuss] resizing zpools by growing LUN

2009-09-21 Thread Sascha
Hej Richard. think I'll update all our servers to the same version of zfs... That will hopefully make sure that this doesn't happen again :-) Darren and Richard: Thank you very much for your help ! Sascha -- This message posted from opensolaris.org __

Re: [zfs-discuss] resizing zpools by growing LUN

2009-09-21 Thread Richard Elling
On Sep 21, 2009, at 8:59 AM, Sascha wrote: Hi Darren, sorry that it took so long before I could answer. The good thing: I found out what went wrong. What I did: After resizing a Disk on the Storage, solaris recognizes it immediately. Everytime you resize a disk, the EVA storage updates the

Re: [zfs-discuss] resizing zpools by growing LUN

2009-09-21 Thread Sascha
Hi Darren, sorry that it took so long before I could answer. The good thing: I found out what went wrong. What I did: After resizing a Disk on the Storage, solaris recognizes it immediately. Everytime you resize a disk, the EVA storage updates the discription which contains the size. So typing

Re: [zfs-discuss] resizing zpools by growing LUN

2009-08-13 Thread Sascha
Hi Darren, took me a while what device is meant by zdb -l... Original size was 20GB After resizing in EVA format -e showed the new correct size: 17. c6t6001438002A5435A0001006Dd0 /scsi_vhci/s...@g6001438002a5435a0001006d Here is the output of zdb -l: zdb -l /dev/dsk/

Re: [zfs-discuss] resizing zpools by growing LUN

2009-08-12 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 04:53:20AM -0700, Sascha wrote: > confirmed, it's really an EFI Label. (see below) > >format> label >[0] SMI Label >[1] EFI Label >Specify Label type[1]: 0 >Warning: This disk has an EFI label. Changing to SMI label will erase all >current partitions

Re: [zfs-discuss] resizing zpools by growing LUN

2009-08-12 Thread Sascha
Darren, I want to give you a short overview of what I tried: 1. created a zpool on a LUN resized the LUN on the EVA exported the zpool used format -e and label tried to enlarge slice 0 -> impossible (see posting above) 2. Same like 1. but exported the zpool before resizing on the EVA Same resul

Re: [zfs-discuss] resizing zpools by growing LUN

2009-08-12 Thread Sascha
Hi Darren, thanks for your quick answer. > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 09:35:53AM -0700, Sascha > wrote: > > Then creating a zpool: > > zpool create -m /zones/huhctmp huhctmppool > c6t6001438002A5435A0001005Ad0 > > > > zpool list > > NAME SIZE USED AVAILCAP HEALTH > ALTROOT

Re: [zfs-discuss] resizing zpools by growing LUN

2009-08-11 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 09:35:53AM -0700, Sascha wrote: > Then creating a zpool: > [b]zpool create -m /zones/huhctmp huhctmppool > c6t6001438002A5435A0001005Ad0[/b] > > [b]zpool list[/b] > NAME SIZE USED AVAILCAP HEALTH ALTROOT > huhctmppool 59.5G 103K 59.5G 0%

Re: [zfs-discuss] resizing zpools by growing LUN

2009-08-11 Thread Sascha
Hi Darren, i tried exactly the same, but it doesn't seem to work. First the size of the disk: [b] echo |format -e|grep -i 05A[/b] 17. c6t6001438002A5435A0001005Ad0 /scsi_vhci/s...@g6001438002a5435a0001005a Then creating a zpool: [b]zpool create -m /zones/

Re: [zfs-discuss] resizing zpools by growing LUN

2009-08-03 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 01:15:49PM -0700, Jan wrote: > Yes, I have an EFI label on that device. > This is my procedure to try growing the capacity of the device: > -> export the zpool > -> overwrite the existing EFI label with format tool > -> auto-configure it > -> import the zpool > > What do y

Re: [zfs-discuss] resizing zpools by growing LUN

2009-08-03 Thread Jan
Hi Darren, thanks for your reply. > What did you try? > Since you're larger than 1T, you certainly have an EFI label. What you > have to do is destroy the existing EFI label, then have format create a > new one for the larger LUN. Finally, create slice 0 as the size of the > entire (now larger) d

Re: [zfs-discuss] resizing zpools by growing LUN

2009-07-30 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 03:51:22AM -0700, Jan wrote: > Hi all, > I need to know if it is possible to expand the capacity of a zpool > without loss of data by growing the LUN (2TB) presented from an HP EVA > to a Solaris 10 host. Yes. > I know that there is a possible way in Solaris Express Commun

[zfs-discuss] resizing zpools by growing LUN

2009-07-29 Thread Jan
Hi all, I need to know if it is possible to expand the capacity of a zpool without loss of data by growing the LUN (2TB) presented from an HP EVA to a Solaris 10 host. I know that there is a possible way in Solaris Express Community Edition, b117 with the autoexpand property. But I still work wi