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# 8  
Old 03-07-2017
please find the output of the requested commands below:

Code:
root@solaris:~# cat /etc/release
                          Oracle Solaris 11 11/11 SPARC
  Copyright (c) 1983, 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates.  All rights reserved.
                            Assembled 18 October 2011
root@solaris:~#

Code:
root@solaris:~# zpool status oradata1
  pool: oradata1
 state: ONLINE
  scan: none requested
config:

        NAME                       STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
        oradata1                   ONLINE       0     0     0
          c5t500A09819DE3E799d1s6  ONLINE       0     0     0

errors: No known data errors
root@solaris:~#

Code:
root@solaris:~# zpool get autoexpand oradata1
NAME      PROPERTY    VALUE   SOURCE
oradata1  autoexpand  off     default
root@solaris:~#

Code:
root@solaris:~# cfgadm -al -o show_SCSI_LUNS c4
cfgadm: Hardware specific failure: invalid option: show_SCSI_LUNS
root@solaris:~#

# 9  
Old 03-07-2017
Hi,

It now looks pretty much certain that you're using a SAN or some other kind of managed storage solution at the back-end here, rather than internal disks or other simple local storage. As per jlliagre's reply earlier, using that storage solution to enlarge the underlying LUN would be the best way forward here in all likelihood.

What is it you're using as a storage solution in this platform ? Whatever it is, it almost certainly provides a way to enlarge a LUN by one means or another. Once that's been done, you can then look at growing the ZFS pool to fill the new available size.
# 10  
Old 03-07-2017
We are using NetApp as storage
# 11  
Old 03-07-2017
Hi,

OK. I'm not myself familiar with NetApp storage solutions, but I'm sure there will be some management interface you can use to administer it no doubt. If NetApp permits you to non-destructively enlarge the underlying LUN without interrupting normal operation (you need to be totally sure about both aspects of that before doing this with the filesystem still mounted), then once you've enlarged the appropriate LUN you can come back to looking at expanding the ZFS pool.
# 12  
Old 03-07-2017
Hi,

On the NetApp front you can go two ways.
  1. Expand the NetApp LUN and grow ZFS into it.
  2. Provision a new LUN of the appropriate size and use it to replace the existing LUN.

To expand the LUN on the NetApp, you would run the following from the NetApp CLI;

vol size VolName + 500g

Then you would expand into the allocated space.

Or create a new 1Tb LUN, present it to the system and use the zfs commands to replace as follows;

Code:
zpool replace oradata1 c5t500A09819DE3E799d1s6 <newdiskname>
zpool set autoexpand=on oradata1

Regards

Gull04
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# 13  
Old 03-07-2017
Thanks Gull04!

I dont have access to NetApp cli, the NetApp admin does it for me, on my side (operating system wise) If I am going to replace current oradata1disk with newdisknamewould I not be destroying current data on oradata1?
# 14  
Old 03-07-2017
Hi,

When it comes to replacing a disk in a zfs pool, the replace action does the following;

The "replace" action migrates data to the new device from the damaged device or from other devices in the pool if it is in a redundant configuration.

When the command is finished, it detaches the damaged device from the configuration, at which point the device can be removed from the system.

Hopefully your disk source is undamaged, so it will just migrate the data without significant risk.

Regards

Gull04
Last edited by gull04; 03-07-2017 at 07:50 AM.. Reason: Additional Information.
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