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  • Welcome to vStor!
  • Introduction
  • Installation
    • Deploying Catalogic vStor on Physical Appliances
    • Deploying Catalogic vStor Virtual Appliance for VMware
    • Deploying Catalogic vStor Virtual Appliance for Microsoft Hyper-V
    • Required Ports for Catalogic vStor
    • Updating Catalogic vStor
  • Quick Start
    • Catalogic vStor for VMware
    • Catalogic vStor for Hyper-V
  • Basic Configuration
    • Initializing vStor
    • Adding Catalogic vStor Node to Catalogic DPX
      • Using vStor API Keys with Catalogic DPX
    • Configuring vStor System Settings
      • Basic System Configuration
      • Security and Network
      • Data Management and Optimization
      • System Monitoring and Maintenance
    • Configuring Network Settings of Catalogic vStor
    • Backing up Configuration Settings of Catalogic vStor
    • Restoring Configuration Settings of Catalogic vStor
  • Storage Management
    • Adding Disks to Catalogic vStor
    • Managing Storage Pools in Catalogic vStor
    • Managing Volumes in Catalogic vStor
      • Migrating Volumes in Catalogic vStor
    • Managing Shares in Catalogic vStor
    • Managing Hosts for LUN Volumes in Catalogic vStor
  • Data Protection
    • Catalogic vStor Backup and Recovery
    • Creating vStor Partnerships
      • Creating Replication Groups
    • Enabling Volume Encryption
  • Advanced Configuration
    • Using Multipath Storage for Catalogic vStor
    • Certificates in Catalogic vStor
    • Adding Encryption URLs to Catalogic vStor
    • MinIO Buckets in Catalogic vStor
    • Assigning an E-mail to the vStor Account
    • Managing vStor User Accounts
    • Using Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) in vStor
  • vStor Command Line Interface
    • Catalogic vStor Server CLI Overview
  • Best Practices
    • Hardware Configurations: Best Practices
    • Data Backup: Best Practices
    • Data Archiving: Best Practices
    • Backup Storage: Best Practices
    • Frequently Asked Questions: Best Practices
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  • Prerequisites
  • Adding Disks to Catalogic vStor
  1. Storage Management

Adding Disks to Catalogic vStor

You can add more disks to the vStor server to provide increased space for storage pools. For virtual deployments, disks can be RDM or virtual disks from datastores. In physical deployments, they can be local or SAN storage. VStor can create RAID-based storage pools for internal redundancy. Once you have added disks to a vStor server, you can rescan to detect newly attached disks.

Prerequisites

Before adding a disk to the vStor server:

  • Ensure disks are unformatted and unpartitioned before adding to the server.

  • Once the disk has been added to the vStor server, you can rescan to detect the newly attached disk. To do this, Select Dashboard from the left-side menu and click on Rescan in the Disks section.

To manually scan disks using the CLI, run:

vstor disk rescan
  • Available disks will automatically appear when adding disks in the vStor Web Interface.

  • Once added, disks will appear in the Disks table.

Adding Disks to Catalogic vStor

  1. Open a web browser and navigate to https://<vStor_hostname_or_IP>:8900.

  2. Log in with admin credentials.

  3. In the navigation menu, click Storage.

  4. In the Storage section, find and select Add Disk in the Disks table.

  5. Choose how the disk will be used: Expand Pool, Log Disk, Cache Disk, or Spare Disk.

  6. In the Add Disk to Pool dialog, select your disk. If none are available, you’ll see No data to display.

  7. Click OK to add the disk.

The disk is now listed in the Disks table and ready to use. The Disks By Type graph updates to reflect this addition.

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See also. For more details on best practices for backup storage, see .

Backup Storage: Best Practices