Administrator Guide
View Internal Storage Reservations
View information about the space that the system deducts from the NAS pool for internal use.
1 In the Storage view, select a FluidFS cluster.
2 Click the File System tab.
3 In the File System view, select Cluster Maintenance.
4 Click the Internal tab.
The Internal Storage Reservations panel displays the internal storage reservations.
View the Size of the NAS Pool
View the current congured size of the NAS pool.
1 In the Storage view, select a FluidFS cluster.
2 Click the Summary tab.
The NAS Pool Status panel displays the congured size of the NAS pool.
Expand the Size of the NAS Pool
You can increase the size of the NAS pool as your NAS storage space requirements increase, without aecting the services to the clients.
However, you cannot decrease the size of the NAS pool.
Prerequisites
The Storage Centers must have enough capacity to allocate more storage space to the FluidFS cluster.
The maximum size of the NAS pool is:
• 2 PB with one Storage Center
• 4 PB with two Storage Centers
Steps
1 In the Storage view, select a FluidFS cluster.
2 Click the Summary tab.
3 In the right pane, click Actions → Storage Centers → Expand NAS Pool. The Expand NAS Pool dialog box opens.
4 In the NAS Pool Size eld, type a new size for the NAS pool in gigabytes (GB) or terabytes (TB).
NOTE
: The new size is bound by the size displayed in the Minimum New Size eld and the Maximum New Size eld.
5 Click OK. If the container has more than one storage type, a drop-down list will appear.
6 From the Storage Type drop-down list, select the type of storage pool, which includes a single data page size and a specied
redundancy level.
7 Click OK.
The Expand NAS Pool dialog box displays the status of the process.
Set the Metadata Tier
Metadata tiering provides the ability to store data and metadata in dierent storage tiers or LUNs. Metadata tiering allows storing of
metadata items on faster disks, beneting workloads which are metadata-oriented but require low-cost disks for most of their data. This
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