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Status Delivered
Workspace PowerVC
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 19, 2015

Attached Storage: Extend Storage without detaching it from running VM

Attached Storage: Extend Storage without detaching it from running VM

Currently, customer/user needs to detach storage from VM first before a Volume can be extended.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Oct 6, 2017

    This is marked as delivered but when calling the API to expand the storage (data volume) is rejected if the device is currently attached to server. If you detach the storage you can resize the volume but you can not when it is attached/in-use.

  • Guest
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    Jun 24, 2017

    Thanks for the suggestion - assuming a flashcopy isn't in progress, you can extend the size of volumes... that also includes AIX rootvg as well.

  • Guest
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    Mar 24, 2015

    IBM agrees with the requirement and will include it for consideration in a future release of PowerVC

  • Guest
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    Mar 20, 2015

    Creating a new RFE based on Community RFE #68273 in product PowerVC.