Need Help on NetApp Ontap 9.5SP1 [VMware] / Hardware Raid 6 [Cisco UCS240M5]
Hi Experts , I need your help regarding our NetApp infrastructure.
We have a NetApp OnTap Select 9.5 on VMware
> 2 nodes HA Stretch Metro Cluster SDS (Network interlink 10GB with jumbo frame)
> 1 node per site separed by 6 Miles
> 1 Aggregates by Site (4 aggregates with plex1)
Plex: /aggr1_xxx/plex0 (online, normal, active, pool0)
Plex: /aggr1_xxx/plex0 (online, normal, active, pool0)
Plex: /aggr1_xxx/plex1 (online, normal, active, pool1)
Plex: /aggr1_xxx/plex1 (online, normal, active, pool1)
We added space by installing new SSD disks to our current RAID6 hosted by a Cisco UCS (6 SSD / 3.5TB)
The expanding process takes a while , more than 2 months 😞
Cisco Engeeneer has replied this is a normal beahavior when you add 20 TB.
Have you got any inputs to improve the processes on the second node and avoiding this uncomfortable situation ?
Can we use only 1 node for hosting the both aggregates (putting the both aggregates read and write) and rebuild the raid from scratch on the remaing node ?
Thank you for your help and support
Kind Regards
