Adding in a new disk shelf on Netbackup Appliance

1.     Rack mount the New disk shelf (xx TB)

Whenever i have added a disk shelf i have taken the whole system down first as we are plugging in SAS cables here - so i like to work on the safe side and this also ensure the bus is fully scanned too.

2. Connect the SAS cables from new Disk shelf (2*SAS IN) to the existing Appliance disk shelf (2* SAS out ports)

3. Power ON New disk shelf and wait for 10-20 mins to let initialize the disk shelf completely.

     

Depending on your configuration (Master/Media) (Advanced Disk Pool / Dedupe Pool) you'll have the following partitions (volumes) available.

Advanced Disk
Configuration
MSDP

Once you add the new tray you'll get an extra disk (highlighted below)

You can then decide which partitions to increase.

- [Info] Performing sanity check on disks and partitions... (5 mins approx)
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Disk ID     | Type                   | Total             | Unallocated | Status
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5E000000000000000000000000 | Operating System |   930.39 GB |        -    | n/a
74B2C580001879FF490EC7C49A | Base                        |   4.5429 TB |        0 GB | In Use
B0048640A01879FF4C0FD4236E | Expansion        |   35.470 TB |   268.98 GB | In Use
B0048640A0FF00003B03B32C62 | Expansion        |   35.470 TB |        0 GB | In Use
 
74B2C580001879FF490EC7C49A (Base)
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Catalog      :      1 GB
MSDP         : 4.5419 TB
 
B0048640A01879FF4C0FD4236E (Expansion)
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AdvancedDisk :    200 GB
Configuration:     25 GB
MSDP         : 34.987 TB
 
B0048640A0FF00003B03B32C62 (Expansion)
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MSDP         : 35.470 TB
 
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Partition     | Total       | Available   | Used        | %Used | Status
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AdvancedDisk  |      200 GB |   198.18 GB |   1.8178 GB |     1 | Optimal
Configuration |       25 GB |   24.736 GB |   270.00 MB |     2 | Optimal
MSDP          |       75 TB |   25.391 TB |   49.608 TB |    67 | Optimal
Unallocated   |   268.98 GB |        -    |        -    |    -  | -

Usually I prefer doing it from Web GUI

Ex:- manage > storage > add unit_3 to grow your respective pool