Questions to ask when planning storage and server infrastructure Storage Requirements What our their current storage environment? (What technology do we use? NetApp, EMC, HP, Hitachi, Compellant?) What is our current amount of usable storage? What is our current data in GB / TB? How much of that data is deemed critical as opposed to [...]
Adding a second disk to an LVM
In a world of storage on demand and virtualized environments, adding more storage on the fly has become simple even on Linux machines without expensive software like Veritas storage manager. Here is how to proceed: need to use LVM or LVM 2 add the new disk as an LVM capable physical volume: pvcreate /dev/sdb (or [...]