RHEV: extending a storage domain

Rhev – Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 – stores data on special areas named Storage Domains (aka SD). An iscsi SD has lun attached – which is usually a Logical Volume (aka LV).

With current releases, you can’t grow a SD modifying the underlying LVs. This is probably due to the complex structure of the Storage Pool Manager which coordinates storage access from various hypervisors.

Let’s grow our “my_iscsi”. If we’re lucky we can do:
1- edit it in the rhev-manager interface;
2- add another LUN/Target to it.

In case the target lun exists but the rhev-manager can’t discover it, we may need to rediscover it trying to create a new storage domain. So:
a- try to create a new iscsi storage domain (don’t save it!);
b- discover for the missing target/lun so that rhev-manager is now aware of it;
c- close the create menu WITHOUT saving.

Now let’s re-select the “my_iscsi” and edit and we should see the new target! Once added to the SD click on “save” and we’re done.

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  1. Roberto, in this post you’re talking of data domain, the specific storage domain that stores all VM disks, snapshot and so on.

    Other two types of storage domains, export and iso domain, are based on NFS shares instead of iSCSI LUNs.

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