Hi, I have two virtual drives (rpool) mirrored on two physical drives.
I set them up with 16 GB each, but that is a bit small. So now I want to enlarge them.
I set the rpool pool property to autoexpand, resized the drives in ESXi and did a scrub, but nothing happened. Still the same size.
Could someone please give me a hint (or even better –*a step by step guide) about how I should go about resizing the rpool?
(bonus question: I recently had a drive failure in my storage pool, and I replaced my 2TB drive with a 4TB drive (thinking I'm going to buy 4TB drives, and eventually replace all 2TB with 4TB and get a bigger pool. I did not have autoexpand set to on when I changed it. Will that cause a problem in the future?)
I set them up with 16 GB each, but that is a bit small. So now I want to enlarge them.
I set the rpool pool property to autoexpand, resized the drives in ESXi and did a scrub, but nothing happened. Still the same size.
Could someone please give me a hint (or even better –*a step by step guide) about how I should go about resizing the rpool?
(bonus question: I recently had a drive failure in my storage pool, and I replaced my 2TB drive with a 4TB drive (thinking I'm going to buy 4TB drives, and eventually replace all 2TB with 4TB and get a bigger pool. I did not have autoexpand set to on when I changed it. Will that cause a problem in the future?)
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