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Increase volume capacity

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Manually increase the volume capacity of a volume at any time.

Optionally, you can enable the autogrow feature to let Workload Factory manage volume capacity for you.

About this task

For an iSCSI LUN, this operation increases the size of the host LUN. After the capacity increases, follow the procedure provided by your host operating system to discover the new size of the LUN and expand the file system of the LUN.

Before you begin

To increase volume capacity, you must associate a link. If you don't have an existing link, create a link. To associate a link in the file system, click Associate link under Account name. Once the link associates, return to this operation.

Steps

  1. Log in to the Workload Factory console

  2. In Storage, select Go to storage inventory.

  3. In the FSx for ONTAP tab, select the three dots menu of the file system with the volume to update and then select Manage.

  4. From the file system overview, select the Volumes tab.

  5. From the Volumes tab, select the three dots menu of the volume to increase capacity for.

  6. Select Basic actions, then Increase volume capacity.

  7. In the Increase volume capacity dialog, provide the following:

    1. Select a larger size.

    2. Change the unit if needed.

  8. Click Increase.