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Combine Raidgroups of same disk type

kruparao5
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On a FAS3170, we have 2 raidgroups  that belong to 1 aggregate, each of size 18, with the same type of  disks and also the same speed.

 
Can we change the raidgroup size and combine those 2 raidgroups to reclaim a couple of disks?

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scottgelb
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We can't shrink or remove disks from an aggregate or raid group.  So, you can only add to those existing raid groups, but can't combine them.  Also, the max FC/SAS/SSD raid group size is 28 (26D+2P with RAID_DP) so that is too many drives for one raid group and you wouldn't gain space if we could combine them.

kruparao5
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It was alot of information. Thank you

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