How is extend supposed to work?

[Oletho]

After resizing the vmdk I unmunted destination and did the extend, upon that it showed the new size.

I was unable to mount destination again, got an error about VDR not supporting more than two destinations.

Did a reboot and now destination is mountable, but after mount it shows original size from before extend.

Destination is being recataloged, and I guess integrity check will kick in after that. Will new size be available after that, or has something gone wrong?

Ole Thomsen

[AndreTheGiant]

I suggest to add a new VMDK and use as a new destinatio of the backup.

Andre

[Oletho]

It seems that the unmount before extend was unnecessary or even wrong.

Extend with the destination mounted finished successfully and now shows the expected capacity.

Ole Thomsen

[Oletho]

Andre,

I was close to doing that, but I do not have the necessary free space to create a new destination without deleting an existing. And as our VCB is stopped during VDR evaluation I could end up without any recent disaster recovery options.

Ole Thomsen

[nathanw]

I'm haveing an issue extending, I have deployed 1.2 with 2 VMDK Destinations, I have formatted and mounted the first and performed some backups, I have a Secons VMDK to extend the Volume to, it will not work.

Thus far I have tried with a clean disk, unmounted and mounted, still no go.

DO I select the disk with data and select Extedn (logical) or do I select the Target and then select extend?

If you click extend without a disk selected it says select target first so I have tried both methods as above and still the destinations does not increase.

any hints suggestions?