Yup, worked fine. We removed a 500GB disk and replaced it with a 1TB one, didn't even need any downtime (although you have to be quick with the screwdriver). I spoke to the x64 line product manager last year and they confirmed that Sun plan to support 2TB drives, and probably even 4TB drives as they're released. I bought a spare drive bay with the latest x2200 we bought since they look to be the same type of mount. When we do finally buy a Thumper I'm planning to have a few spare bays so we can upgrade 4 disks at a time. Now I'm very new to Solaris, so I don't know if this is really the best procedure, but this is the best way I found to upgrade the drives on the x4500:
Upgrading Drives Use the procedure for replacing a failed drive with a slight modification. When a drive is replaced with a hot spare, ZFS sees that as a temporary change, and will revert back to the original drive once it has been replaced. If you are upgrading, it's more efficient to make the swop permanent. ie: old drive -> new drive Instead of: old drive -> spare -> new drive Overview: Remove a spare from the ZFS pool Use the cfgadm program as documented below to replace the spare with a bigger drive Replace a drive in the ZFS pool with the new large drive Then offline that drive, and repeat 1. Remove the spare and upgrade it # zpool remove <poolname> c5t7d0 # cfgadm | grep c5t7d0 sata1/1::dsk/c5t7d0 disk connected configured ok # cfgadm -c unconfigure sata1/1Now remove and replace the physical disk 2. Start the rolling replacements: # cfgadm -c configure sata1/1 # zpool replace <poolname> <olddrive> c5t7d0 ... wait # cfgadm | grep <olddrive> sata1/2::dsk/<olddrive> disk connected configured ok # cfgadm -c unconfigure sata1/2Replace that drive and repeat. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
