Working with Arcserve Appliance Expansion Kit - X Series Models

Arcserve Expansion Kit lets you expand the data capacity in Arcserve Appliance X Series models.

Follow these steps:

  1. For X series Expansion Kit - Capacity of any model (except X3000DR), you can perform a linear expansion with optional Expansion Kits as many times as required till you reach the largest model X3000DR.
  2. Perform the following steps to insert HDDs in the empty disk slots:
    1. From the Arcserve UDP Console verify and ensure that no jobs are running on the Appliance Server. If any jobs are running, pause the corresponding plans.
    2. Insert the HDDs in the empty disk slots of Storage Unit - ME4084 Value Array. Each kit in the X series Expansion kit consists of 14 x 16TB disks.
  3. Log into the ME unit - Value Array Storage Manager, go to Pools, and then select the disk group that you want to expand.
  5. Right-click the selected disk group, and the select Expand Disk Group.
  6. The Expand Disk Group panel opens and displays the disk group information and disk tables.
  8. To add additional disks to the disk group, enter a range of disks in the Enter Range of Disks field or select the disks from the table.
  9. Click Modify.
  10. On the confirmation panel, click Yes to start the group expansion, and then click OK to close the panel.
  11. Note: After the Expand job is completed, a rebalance job is triggered on the disk group.
  12. After the Expand and Rebalance jobs are completed, open Disk Management from the compute unit, and then select Action > Rescan Disks.
  14. After Rescan, the disk from the Storage Unit appears with the expanded storage.