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How to Increase the Cloudcache R3 data volume from 1 TB
How to Increase the Cloudcache R3 data volume from 1 TB

How to Increase the Cloudcache R3 data volume from 1 TB

Updated over 2 weeks ago

Problem description:

Default Cloudcache data disk which 1 TB is full i.e 100%, or a larger deployment size is needed.

Filesystem: /dev/mapper/vg-lv

Mounted on : /mnt/data

Use%: 100%

Cause

Cloudcache store size is full, or a larger deployment size is needed.

Solution

As a best practice only allocate 90% of the total physical volume size in the Druva User interface to prevent the volume from getting 100% full.Example:1024 GB default volume, and the recommended volume would be approximately 920 GB.

Note: The default volume of the R3 CloudCache is dos formatted, and cannot be extended beyond 2 TB.

Steps to add an additional disk/s and extend the logical volume:

  1. Shut down the CloudCache appliance VM.

  2. Add a volume/s to the CloudCache VM of the desired size.

    • Note: If more than three vmdk disks are added then an additional disk controller should be added.

  3. Power on the CloudCache, and logon to the system via SSH.

  4. Stop the Druva-EnterpriseWorkloads.service
    systemctl stop Druva-EnterpriseWorkloads.service

  5. Run the following command to identify the added volume:
    fdisk -l | grep -i /dev/sd
    * Example 400 GB disk:

  6. Run the following command to initialize the volume:
    * Be sure to replace the disk with the needed volume collected in step 4, and repeat for any additional disks to add to the volume group
    pvcreate /dev/sdc

  7. Now the volume group can be extended using the command below:
    * Be sure to replace the disk with the needed volume collected in step 4.
    vgextend vg /dev/sdc

  8. Run the following command to extend the file system of the volume group:
    lvextend -l +100%FREE /dev/mapper/vg-lv -r

  9. Run the either of the commands and verify the new size of the volume:
    df -h – or – vgs

  10. Start the Druva-EnterpriseWorkloads.service
    systemctl start Druva-EnterpriseWorkloads.service

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