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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. Expanding existing data or catalog volumes
  6. Manual storage expansion
Cohesity Cloud Scale Technology Manual Deployment Guide for Kubernetes Clusters

Manual storage expansion

You also can manually expand storage size by expanding PVC size.

To expand the data or catalog volumes

  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 stop MSDP operator from reconciling and repairing the pods automatically:

    helm upgrade <release-name>cloudscale-<version>.tgz -n netbackup --reuse-values --set environment.msdpScaleouts.paused=true

  4. Patch the corresponding PVCs.

    kubectl patch pvc <pvc-name> --type merge --patch '{"spec": {"resources": {"requests": {"storage": "<requested-size>"}}}}' -n <sample-namespace>

  5. Run the following command to continue to reconcile and repair the pods automatically:

    helm upgrade <release-name>cloudscale-<version>.tgz -n netbackup --reuse-values --set environment.msdpScaleouts.paused=false

Note:

If you add new MSDP Engines later, the new Engines will respect the CR specification only. Your manual changes would not be respected by the new Engines.

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