Managing Disks

Provides a brief overview of adding and removing disks from the HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric file system.

You can add and remove disks in the file system from the control system or using the diskadd and diskremove commands. file system groups disks into storage pools, usually made up of two or three disks. When adding disks to the file system, it is a good idea to add at least two or three at a time so that HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric can create properly-sized storage pools. Each node in a HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric cluster can support up to 36 storage pools.

To see which disks are used by file system, check the disktab file that HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric maintains on each node.

Refer to the following procedures to manage disks using the Control System and the CLI.