Expanding a Storage Pool

Simplyblock is designed as on always-on storage system. Therefore, expanding a storage pool is an online operation and does not require a maintenance window or system downtime.

When expanding a storage pool, its capacity will be extended, offering an extended quota of the overall storage cluster.

Storage Pool Expansion

To expand a storage pool, the sbcli-pre command line interface:

Expanding the storage pool

sbcli-pre storage-pool set <POOL_ID> --pool-max=<NEW_SIZE>

The value of NEW_SIZE must be given as 20G, 20T, etc.

All valid parameters can be found in the Storage Pool CLI Reference.