March 29, 2024
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Today, I am going to show you how to Extend Volumes in Storage Space Direct Cluster.

Today, I am going to show you how to Extend Volumes in Storage Space Direct Cluster.

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Resize the virtual disk

  1. Login to S2D Cluster server.
  2. Open PowerShell Run as Administrator.
  3. Run follow cmdlet to check Virtual Disk information.

    Get-VirtualDisk

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  4. Run follow cmdlet to get association between objects ion the stack information.

    Get-VirtualDisk CSV01 | Get-Disk | Get-Partition | Get-Volume

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  5. Run follow cmdlet to verify the Virtual Disk use storage tiers, or not use.

    Get-VirtualDisk CSV01 | Get-StorageTier

  6. If the cmdlet returns nothing, the virtual disk doesn’t use storage tiers, run follow cmdlet to Resize Virtual Disks.

    Get-VirtualDisk <FriendlyName> | Resize-VirtualDisk -Size <Size>

  7. If the virtual disk uses storage tiers.

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  8. Run follow cmdlet resize each tier separately. In my case, increate the CSV01-NestedMirror storage tier size from 200GB to 300GB.

    Get-VirtualDisk CSV01 | Get-StorageTier | Select FriendlyName

    Get-StorageTier CSV01-NestedMirror | Resize-StorageTier -Size 300GB

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  9. 9.Run follow cmdlet to verify storage tier size.

    Get-VirtualDisk CSV01 | Get-StorageTier

    Get-VirtualDisk

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Resize the partition

The virtual disk is expected to have two partitions: the first is Reserved and should not be modified; the one you need to resize has PartitionNumber = 2 and Type = Basic.

  1. Run follow cmdlet to resize partition.

    # Choose virtual disk

    $VirtualDisk = Get-VirtualDisk CSV01

    # Get its partition

    $Partition = $VirtualDisk | Get-Disk | Get-Partition | Where PartitionNumber -Eq 2

    # Resize to its maximum supported size

    $Partition | Resize-Partition -Size ($Partition | Get-PartitionSupportedSize).SizeMax

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  2. Verify the Volume size status from Storage Disks of Failover Cluster Manager.

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Hope you enjoy this post.

Cary Sun

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