Thanks for the input guys, it was kind of what i was expecting to hear but not what i wanted to hear :-((
That said I have informed my boss and he has agreed to purchase a new shelf which will get us out of trouble for the moment on the FAS 940 which is very low on disks, I take it to add the shelf i will have to power down the filer?
Bryano wrote:
Hi,
I have 'inherited' several filers including FAS 270's and FAS 940's which only have 72GB drives and we are now running very low on spares and the company I work for is reluctant to buy another shelf, it has therefore it has been proposed that we remove a disk at a time from a volumes raid group and replace it with a larger drive (300GB) and then once the raid has recovered then remove the next disk and repeat the procedure until all the disks in the volumes raid raid group have been replaced with larger ones.
My initial question is - is this possible and if so once all the drives in a particular raid group that makes up a volume have been replaced with larger ones will that show immediately as free space available in that volume or will we need to do something else to get the filer to see the additional free space?
Thanks