So I've been running 3x 4TB (ST4000VN008-2DR166) in RAID5 for quite a while and wanted expand it by adding a fourth HDD. The migration was successful and the RAID Controller (LSI MegaRAID SAS 9261-8i) is showing the full 10.913TB as available storage:
Datacenter > Server > Disks > LVM:
I tried extending
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I've done some research on this and it turns out that I need extend the Volume group. The scary part is I could loose all my data, since I need to recreate the partition, like described over here partitioning - Resize VM partition without erasing data
Here's another article, moreover on how to do this regarding proxmox: https://www.reddit.com/r/Proxmox/comments/aagsgn/extend_locallvm/
Bash:
user@server:~ # storcli64 /c0 show
..
TOPOLOGY :
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DG Arr Row EID:Slot DID Type State BT Size PDC PI SED DS3 FSpace TR
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0 - - - - RAID5 Optl Y 10.913 TB dflt N N dflt N N
0 0 - - - RAID5 Optl Y 10.913 TB dflt N N dflt N N
0 0 0 252:0 27 DRIVE Onln N 3.637 TB dflt N N dflt - N
0 0 1 252:1 26 DRIVE Onln N 3.637 TB dflt N N dflt - N
0 0 2 252:2 25 DRIVE Onln N 3.637 TB dflt N N dflt - N
0 0 3 252:3 24 DRIVE Onln N 3.637 TB dflt N N dflt - N
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VD LIST :
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DG/VD TYPE State Access Consist Cache Cac sCC Size Name
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0/0 RAID5 Optl RW No NRWBD - ON 10.913 TB seagate-raid
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PD LIST :
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EID:Slt DID State DG Size Intf Med SED PI SeSz Model Sp Type
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252:0 27 Onln 0 3.637 TB SATA HDD N N 512B ST4000VN008-2DR166 U -
252:1 26 Onln 0 3.637 TB SATA HDD N N 512B ST4000VN008-2DR166 U -
252:2 25 Onln 0 3.637 TB SATA HDD N N 512B ST4000VN008-2DR166 U -
252:3 24 Onln 0 3.637 TB SATA HDD N N 512B ST4000VN008-2DR166 U -
252:4 28 UGood - 1.817 TB SATA HDD N N 512B WDC WD2003FYYS-02W0B1 D -
252:5 29 UGood - 1.817 TB SATA HDD N N 512B WDC WD2003FYYS-02W0B1 D -
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user@server:~ # storcli64 /c0/v0 show migrate
VD Operation Status :
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VD Operation Progress% Status Estimated Time Left
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0 Migrate - Not in progress -
-----------------------------------------------------------fdisk -l is showing /dev/sda with 10.9 TiB in total, but seagate--raid-vm--101--disk--0 is still on 7.3 TiB:
Bash:
Disk /dev/sda: 10.9 TiB, 11999999164416 bytes, 23437498368 sectors
..
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sda1 2048 15624998878 15624996831 7.3T Linux filesystem
Disk /dev/mapper/seagate--raid-vm--101--disk--0: 7.3 TiB, 7999913459712 bytes, 15624830976 sectors
..
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/mapper/seagate--raid-vm--101--disk--0-part1 2048 15624830942 15624828895 7.3T Linux filesystemDatacenter > Server > Disks > LVM:
I tried extending
seagate-raid by using qm resize 101 scsi1 +3636G, but Proxmox itself isn't recognizing the size change. So how to safely expand the virtual disk without loosing the data?- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
I've done some research on this and it turns out that I need extend the Volume group. The scary part is I could loose all my data, since I need to recreate the partition, like described over here partitioning - Resize VM partition without erasing data
Here's another article, moreover on how to do this regarding proxmox: https://www.reddit.com/r/Proxmox/comments/aagsgn/extend_locallvm/
Bash:
user@server:~ # lvdisplay
--- Logical volume ---
LV Path /dev/seagate-raid/vm-101-disk-0
LV Name vm-101-disk-0
VG Name seagate-raid
LV UUID DKJ4bA-396x-QyWq-79qE-JZ7A-cIZh-uLKXow
LV Write Access read/write
LV Creation host, time ariola, 2019-02-25 23:02:39 +0100
LV Status available
# open 1
LV Size 7.28 TiB
Current LE 1907347
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors auto
- currently set to 256
Block device 253:2
user@server:~ # pvdisplay
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/sda1
VG Name seagate-raid
PV Size 7.28 TiB / not usable 4.98 MiB
Allocatable yes (but full)
PE Size 4.00 MiB
Total PE 1907347
Free PE 0
Allocated PE 1907347
PV UUID 2UG4tr-Ug3O-HKKA-P5tp-yyYx-9Sio-k43bOM
user@server:~ # pvs
PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree
/dev/sda1 seagate-raid lvm2 a-- 7.28t 0
/dev/sdb3 pve lvm2 a-- 111.54g 13.88g
user@server:~ # vgs
VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize VFree
pve 1 5 0 wz--n- 111.54g 13.88g
seagate-raid 1 1 0 wz--n- 7.28t 0
user@server:~ # lvs
LV VG Attr LSize Pool Origin Data% Meta% Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert
data pve twi-aotz-- 59.91g 91.39 3.92
root pve -wi-ao---- 27.75g
swap pve -wi-ao---- 8.00g
vm-100-disk-1 pve Vwi-a-tz-- 20.00g data 91.74
vm-101-disk-1 pve Vwi-aotz-- 40.00g data 91.01
vm-101-disk-0 seagate-raid -wi-ao---- 7.28t
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