Disk Expansion
In the Disk Expansion section of the WebUI, the table lists all the discovered and provisioned disks. A status line above the table indicates whether the status of all the disks is OK.
To discover and provision disks:
1. Discover - Once you have new disks added to your VM node, click this button to initiate a discovery.
When discovery is complete, the nodes that have been discovered but not provisioned are shown as Ready/Unconfigured in the State column.
2. Configure - This is to initiate the configuration process. Notice that now the disks are recognized but in an unconfigured state, requiring configuration and provisioning. This is a 2-step process, the disks have to be configured as HDD or SSD and then provisioned.
This will bring up the following pop-up dialog box
- Select “SSD” for the disk type if you are adding virtual SSDs.
- Select the default from the Group Type pull down as shown below
- Select “SUBMIT
Once submitted, the following pop-up dialog box will appear.
The following dialog box appears to confirm provisioning the disk.
Once the disk is provisioned, you will get a confirmation popup like the one below:
When provisioning is complete, verify that the disks are now in the ONLINE state and ready for use.
4. To add more disks by following the steps from 1-3.