This topic describes how to increase the size of a user volume
when the corresponding data LUN size has increased.
Prerequisites
You must have Administrator privileges to perform this task.
Context
Attention: You must reboot the client machines (except AIX® 5.2
and later clients) that have access to the expanded volumes to see the expanded
volume size.
Steps
- Resize one or more data LUNs on your storage system (for example, IBM® TotalStorage® SAN
Volume Controller (SVC)).
- For each AIX 5.2 and later clients, perform these steps:
- Stop each application that is using SAN File System.
- Stop the AIX client using the rmstclient command.
- Start the AIX client using the setupstclient command.
- For all other clients, reboot each machine.
- Verify that all clients can see the new volume size using the reportclient
–lun command from the administrative CLI.
- Expand the size of each volume (associated with the LUNs you expanded
on your storage subsystem) on the metadata server using the expandvol command
from the administrative CLI or using the SAN File System console perform the
following steps:
- Click from the My Work frame.
- Select a volume.
- Click Properties from the drop-down
box in the table header.
- Click Go
- Click the Size tab.
- Determine the current LUN size by selecting a client that can
see the LUN from the drop-down box and clicking Refresh.
- Check the LUN size versus the volume size in the table and click Expand
Volume to increase the volume size if the LUN size has increased.
- Click OK to save the new settings.