Operation: expand-storage-pool

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The expand-storage-pool operation enables administrators to increase the available space in an existing pool for a storage system.

Adapter Request Elements for 'expand-storage-pool' Operation

 

Definition

Required

operation-name

Specifies the name of the operation you want to perform.

•Valid value: expand-storage-pool.

Yes

arguments

Parent element for <argument> element.

Yes

argument

Specifies a list of arguments that is required for this operation

Yes

storage-system-name

Specifies the storage system name from which the information has to be collected.

•Valid value: Any valid string.
•Default value: None.

Yes

thin-pool

Specifies the thin pool name that must be expanded.

•Valid value: Any valid string.
•Default Value: None.

Yes

lun-name

 

OR

 

size-bytes

Specifies the LUN names of type data device or the raw size in bytes that is used to expand the pool.

•Valid value: None.
•Default Value: None.

Yes

You can specify one or more of the following elements to retrieve specific information. If none of the elements is specified, then all the details are fetched.

synchronous

Specifies whether to wait until the job completes. Any action performed by EMC SMI-S provider results in creating a job. If the 'synchronous' element is set to yes,  the adapter will wait until the job completes. Otherwise the job will be queued.

•Valid value: yes | no
•Default value: yes

No

job-completion-timeout-secs

Specifies the time in seconds after which the attempt to complete the job times out.

•Valid value: A numeric value which specifies the time in seconds.
•Default value: 180 seconds

No

Sample Adapter Request for 'expand-storage-pool' Operation

<emc-storage-request>

    <operation-name>expand-storage-pool</operation-name>

    <arguments>

      <argument>

        <storage-system-name>SYMMETRIX+000294901120</storage-system-name>

  <thin-pool>TP_Demo</thin-pool>        

  <size-bytes>209715200</size-bytes>

        <synchronous>yes</synchronous>

        <job-completion-timeout-secs>300</job-completion-timeout-secs>

      </argument>

    </arguments>

  </emc-storage-request>

Adapter Response Elements for 'expand-storage-pool' Operation

 

Description

storage-system-name

Name of the storage system.

job-id

Number identifying the job.

job-status

Status of the job.

job-status-description

Detailed information about the job status.

Sample Adapter Response for 'expand-storage-pool' Operation

<emc-storage-response>

  <metadata>

    <status>success</status>

    <response-count>1</response-count>

  </metadata>

  <responses>

    <response>

      <metadata>

        <status>success</status>

        <execution-milliseconds>154360</execution-milliseconds>

        <line-count>5</line-count>

        <target>locke-2</target>

        <config-name>default</config-name>

      </metadata>

      <output>

        <storage-pools>

          <storage-pool>

            <storage-system-name>SYMMETRIX+000294901120</storage-system-name>

      <thin-pool>TP_Demo</thin-pool>            

      <job-id>208985045</job-id>

            <job-status>Completed</job-status>

            <job-status-description>Completed - Pool Expand</job-status-description>

          </storage-pool>

        </storage-pools>

      </output>

    </response>

  </responses>

</emc-storage-response>