Making New Storage Available
After you add storage servers to a rack to increase the storage capacity of an existing system, you must run racli
commands to make the additional storage available for backups.
Caution:
After you add a storage cell to the Recovery Appliance, you cannot remove it.On install by default, a DELTA disk group name is created and the storage location name, which is often identical to the disk group name (DELTA, DELTA1, etc.). However the disk group name and storage location name are two different things. Storage is expanded using the UPDATE_STORAGE_LOCATION command.
Note:
The default storage location and the ASM disk group are both called DELTA, but are not the same thing.
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The new storage cells have the same Exadata image version as the existing storage cells.
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The new storage cells do not have any associated databases. (You can run
cellcli -e list database
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The root password of the new storage cell must still be the factory default.
To make the new storage available:
See Also:
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RACLI Overview for details about the commands used in the procedure.
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Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance Administrator’s Guide for information on how to view storage location information.