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  2. Cohesity Cloud Scale Technology Manual Deployment Guide for Kubernetes Clusters
  3. Appendix B. MSDP Scaleout
  4. Managing MSDP Scaleout
  5. Adding MSDP engines
Cohesity Cloud Scale Technology Manual Deployment Guide for Kubernetes Clusters

Adding MSDP engines

You can add new MSDP engines by updating MSDP Scaleout in Cloud Scale helm release. You can add maximum 16 MSDP engines.

Prerequisites:

  • Allocate new static IP/FQDN pairs in the same node resource group.

  • The node number must not be less than the MSDP Scaleout size that you plan to change.

To add the MSDP engines by updating the Cloud Scale helm release

  1. Run the following command to obtain the Cloud Scale release name:

    Helm ls -n <namespace>

  2. Navigate to the helm directory within the extracted tar location.
  3. Run the following command to add new engine:

    helm upgrade <release name> cloudscale-<version>.tgz -n <namespace> --reuse-values

    --set environment.msdpScaleouts.replicas=<total no, including new engine>

    --set environment.msdpScaleouts.ipList[0].fqdn=<existing engine FQDN>

    --set environment.msdpScaleouts.ipList[0].ipAddr=<existing engine IP>

    --set environment.msdpScaleouts.ipList[1].fqdn=<FQDN for new engine to be added>

    --set environment.msdpScaleouts.ipList[1].ipAddr=<IP for new engine to be added>

The MSDP Scaleout services are not interrupted when MSDP engines are added.

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