Swap out hard disk

GastonJ

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This is only my own test system, so not too high spec. I have an SSD (/dev/sda), which is part of of the pve volume group

PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree
/dev/nvme0n1p3 pve lvm2 a-- <475.94g 0
/dev/sda1 pve lvm2 a-- <931.51g 247.51g <<-- This drive has to go
/dev/sdb iscsi lvm2 a-- 894.25g 644.25g

Which I want to replace with a 4TB SSD.

VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize VFree
iscsi 1 1 0 wz--n- 894.25g 644.25g <-- external disk
pve 2 28 0 wz--n- 1.37t 247.51g

LV VG Attr LSize Pool Origin Data% Meta% Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert
STOREAGE iscsi -wi-ao---- 250.00g
data pve twi-aotz-- 893.94g 48.03 5.14
lun1a pve -wi-ao---- 50.00g
lun2a pve -wi-ao---- 50.00g
root pve -wi-ao---- 96.00g
swap pve -wi-ao---- 64.00g
vm-100-disk-0 pve Vwi-a-tz-- 4.00m data 14.06
vm-100-disk-1 pve Vwi-a-tz-- 100.00g data 76.72
vm-100-disk-2 pve Vwi-a-tz-- 4.00m data 1.56
vm-101-disk-0 pve Vwi-a-tz-- 4.00m data 14.06
vm-101-disk-1 pve Vwi-a-tz-- 128.00g data 41.11
vm-103-disk-0 pve Vwi-a-tz-- 32.00g data 79.71
vm-104-disk-0 pve Vwi-a-tz-- 8.00g data 96.47
vm-105-disk-0 pve Vwi-a-tz-- 32.00g data 5.61
vm-107-disk-0 pve Vwi-a-tz-- 30.00g data 22.33
vm-108-disk-0 pve Vwi-a-tz-- 20.00g data 22.46
vm-109-disk-0 pve Vwi-a-tz-- 32.00g data 75.43
vm-110-disk-0 pve Vwi-a-tz-- 32.00g data 45.67
vm-111-disk-0 pve Vwi-a-tz-- 80.00g data 77.73
vm-112-disk-0 pve Vwi-a-tz-- 62.00g data 88.56
vm-113-disk-0 pve Vwi-a-tz-- 52.00g data 86.55
vm-114-disk-0 pve Vwi-a-tz-- 16.00g data 24.51
vm-116-disk-0 pve Vwi-a-tz-- 32.00g data 5.35
vm-117-disk-0 pve Vwi-a-tz-- 32.00g data 2.22
vm-120-disk-0 pve Vwi-a-tz-- 8.00g data 63.77
vm-121-disk-0 pve Vwi-a-tz-- 16.00g data 59.45
vm-122-disk-0 pve Vwi-a-tz-- 4.00m data 14.06
vm-122-disk-1 pve Vwi-a-tz-- 32.00g data 100.00
vm-123-disk-0 pve Vwi-a-tz-- 4.00m data 14.06

lun1a and lun2a are for use by one of my Oracle ASM installations, but again that's simple enough to deal with, I could just move those to the external drive. STOREAGE LV just sits on the iscsi VG, that's on my external 1TB hard disk that I normally use for backups, ISO's and the like.

So looking for advice on how best to take the disk /dev/sda out of this to replace it with a 4tb ssd.

I had though maybe move all VM's to the external while I do this.

All input/suggestions on an approach much appreciated.

Cheers