About This Document
Purpose
This document instructs operators to expand capacity for the OceanStor 2200 V3/2600 V3 storage system from the perspectives of capacity expansion process, planning, and implementation.
Intended Audience
This document is intended for:
- Technical support engineers
- Maintenance engineers
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Change History
Changes between document issues are cumulative. The latest document issue contains all the changes made in earlier issues.
Issue 07 (2018-12-30)
This is the seventh official release.
- Updated Using SmartKit to Expand Controllers.
- Updated Expanding a LUN on an Application Server in AIX.
Issue 06 (2018-08-30)
This is the sixth official release.
- Added Mappings Between SAS Ports and Loop IDs.
- Added Procedure for Expanding Controllers.
- Optimized some descriptions.
Issue 05 (2018-05-30)
This is the fifth official release.
Optimized some descriptions.
Issue 04 (2018-05-15)
This is the fourth official release.
- Added Performing the Pre-expansion Evaluation.
- Added Expand Disks Using SmartKit.
- Added Expand Disk Enclosures Using SmartKit.
- Added Expand Links Using SmartKit.
- Updated Expanding Controllers in Switch-Connection Networking Mode.
- Updated Expanding Controllers in Direct-Connection Networking Mode.
Issue 03 (2018-02-05)
This is the third official release.
Updated the max number of disk enclosures connected to back-end channels.
Issue 02 (2017-07-31)
This is the second official release. The updates are as follows:
- Added It is recommended that the capacity of added disks is the same as that of disks in the storage layer that requires capacity expansion.
- Added How to expand the capacity of a LUN used in the HyperMetro feature.
Issue 01 (2016-09-30)
This is the first official release.
