Unable to expand the storage pool capacity after adding new drives to the storage pool with RAID-4 configuration
Applies to
- RAID 4 storage pool
- Added SSD drives to the storage pool
Issue
- New SSD drives added to an existing storage pool using RAID 4
- The capacity of the storage pool does not increase
- The newly added drives show up in the spare pool. Example:
- RAID 4 storage pool SP1 created with 11 drives
::*> storage pool show-disks
Storage Pool Name: SP1
Disk
Disk Type Usable Size Total Size
-------- ------- ----------- -----------
2.71.0 SSD 372.4GB 372.6GB
...
2.71.10 SSD 372.4GB 372.6GB
11 entries were displayed.
- Added 13 more drives:
::*> storage pool show-disks
Storage Pool Name: SP1
Disk
Disk Type Usable Size Total Size
-------- ------- ----------- -----------
2.71.0 SSD 372.4GB 372.6GB
...
2.71.10 SSD 372.4GB 372.6GB
2.71.11 SSD 372.4GB 372.6GB
...
2.71.23 SSD 372.4GB 372.6GB
24 entries were displayed.
- The newly added 13 drives show up in the spare pool of both the nodes with partitions, instead of being added to the hybrid aggregates.