HPE VM Essentials Management

Increasing the Data or Archive Pool Size

To increase the storage:

1. For each CTERA Portal instance you have installed, stop CTERA Portal services, by doing the following:
2. Log in to the HPE VM Essentials console.
3. Click Provisioning > Instances and select the CTERA Portal VM.
   The VM details are displayed.
   
4. Click Actions > Stop Server.
   
5. Click Actions > Reconfigure.
6. Specify the new size for the volume.
7. Click Reconfigure.
   
8. Click the Storage tab.
9. Note the DEVICE value for the data pool and/or archive pool disk.
10. Extend the storage by doing the following:
    1. Log in as root to the CTERA Portal server over SSH.
    2. Run the following command to extend the data pool: portal-storage-util.sh extend_storage deviceName
       Where deviceName is the DEVICE value from the Storage tab.
       Run the following command to extend the archive pool: portal-storage-util.sh extend_db_archive_pool device
       Where deviceName is the DEVICE value from the Storage tab.
       For example: portal-storage-util.sh extend_db_archive_pool sdc
11. For each CTERA Portal instance, starting from the CTERA Portal main database and proceeding to the application servers, start CTERA Portal services by doing the following:
    1. Log in as root user to each CTERA Portal server over SSH.
    2. Run the following command to start the portal services: portal-manage.sh start