Adding Disks to Pools

Additional disks can be added later to pools as required.

To add one or more disks to an existing disk pool:

1. In DataCore Servers panel, right-click the pool to add the disks to and choose Add Physical Disks.
2. In the Add Physical Disks to Pool page, select the physical disks to add from the list.
3. In the Tier for added disks box, keep the current value (last selection) or change the tier if required.
4. Click Add.

Disks added to pools go into reclamation to purge existing data. The amount of available free space will increase as reclamation progresses. Only the available free space in disks added to pools can be used. Reclamation can be monitored in the Info tab on Disk Pool Details page. (See Disk Pool Details and List.). Adding a large number of physical disks to a pool may create a significant overhead while the disks perform reclamation. It is recommended to perform this action in batches of 10 or less. If this number negatively affects the performance of the server or pool, add the disks in smaller batches.

Disks in disk pools can be mirrored to provide another level of high availability for the disk pool, see Mirroring Pool Disks.