Expand Pool

[tonyberinson]

Hi All

When I setup FreeNas its running on a VM on my Server (ESXI) - I assigned 7TB to the Freenas - and works fine -however I wish to expand to 9TB now.

I have added the extra storage in to the EXSI Server and when I restarted FreeNas - the Disk is now 10TB - however, I want to expand the extra 2TB to my dataset in my pool.

How do I do it?

Please help its urgent.

Thanks

Tony

 

[Alecmascot]

If you search for "expand pool esxi" you fill find lots of info.

 

[danb35]

If you're using virtual disks as storage with FreeNAS (which I'm pretty sure you'd have to be, to do what you say you just did), you're doing it very wrong. See:

"Absolutely must virtualize FreeNAS!" ... a guide to not completely losing your data.

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