topic Expanding an aggregate - existing volumes in ONTAP Discussions https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Expanding-an-aggregate-existing-volumes/m-p/80600#M18816 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>If I have a aggregate with say 16 spindles with RG size 16 and I add another 16 spindles i.e. I end up with two equal raid groups.</P><P>Do existing Volumes / LUNs get spread across ALL disks or do I have to run a command to achieve this?</P><P>i.e. I don't want to get hot spindles and want load equally shared.</P><P></P><P>If so what is the command and what performance impact does this have?</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:31:45 GMT Willybobs27 2025-06-05T06:31:45Z Expanding an aggregate - existing volumes https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Expanding-an-aggregate-existing-volumes/m-p/80600#M18816 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>If I have a aggregate with say 16 spindles with RG size 16 and I add another 16 spindles i.e. I end up with two equal raid groups.</P><P>Do existing Volumes / LUNs get spread across ALL disks or do I have to run a command to achieve this?</P><P>i.e. I don't want to get hot spindles and want load equally shared.</P><P></P><P>If so what is the command and what performance impact does this have?</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:31:45 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Expanding-an-aggregate-existing-volumes/m-p/80600#M18816 Willybobs27 2025-06-05T06:31:45Z Re: Expanding an aggregate - existing volumes https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Expanding-an-aggregate-existing-volumes/m-p/80605#M18817 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>There is no automatic redistribution. You need to manually run "reallocate" command.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 21 Mar 2012 17:21:55 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Expanding-an-aggregate-existing-volumes/m-p/80605#M18817 aborzenkov 2012-03-21T17:21:55Z