Not possible to extend HAImage over ~32 Tb

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yaroslav (staff)
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Thu Jan 09, 2025 1:31 pm

Hi,

Is there any way you can reformat the storage as NTFS (full synchronization will be needed).
Do you use dynamically expanding partition on your underlying storage or is it a simple ReFS volume?
arifurinmoto
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Thu Jan 09, 2025 2:27 pm

Unfortunately there is no way to reformat the storage.
Volume is simple ReFS.
yaroslav (staff)
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Thu Jan 09, 2025 3:19 pm

Can you please share the screenshots that showcase free space on both replication partners?
Please share also the logs from both servers (use log collector https://knowledgebase.starwindsoftware. ... collector/)
arifurinmoto
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Mon Jan 13, 2025 2:28 pm

Thank you for all your help, we finally found the source of our problems!

Initially our Storage Spaces included 6 HDDs on each node then we expand it to 10 HDDs. So pool was set up to have 3 columns and didnt changes to 5 columns after adding new HDDs.

So now we need to rebuild our pools and recreate HApartner on each of node waiting loooong full hash sync
yaroslav (staff)
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Mon Jan 13, 2025 4:10 pm

Hi,

Glad to read that you've found the cause. Please keep me posted.
arifurinmoto
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Wed Jan 15, 2025 7:45 am

Hi!

We rebuilt storage on one node.
First i recreate lesser device HAImage2 using RemoveHAPartner.ps1 and AddHaPartner.ps1 and its all ok.
Then i recreate bigger device HAImage1 and on second node it become HAImage3.
Such naming isnt so usefull as i expected. Is there any way how i can rename HAImage3 in HAImage1 after full hash sync end?
yaroslav (staff)
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Wed Jan 15, 2025 1:42 pm

There's no straightforward way as it is needed to modify the config files on both nodes.
The easiest way will be just to leave it as is.
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