HP P2000 G3 MSA System CLI Reference Guide 97
expand snap-pool
Description Expands a snap pool. Expansion is restricted to the space available on the vdisk containing the snap
pool. If insufficient space is available for expansion on the vdisk, first expand the vdisk by using
expand vdisk.
Syntax To expand by a specific size:
expand snap-pool
size size[B|KB|MB|GB|TB|KiB|MiB|GiB|TiB]
snap-pool
To expand to the maximum size:
expand snap-pool
size max
snap-pool
Parameters size size[B|KB|MB|GB|TB|KiB|MiB|GiB|TiB]
Specifies the size using the current base, as shown by the show cli-parameters command. The unit
can be specified as follows:
• If base 2 is in use: B (bytes), KiB (kibibytes), MiB (mebibytes), or GiB (gibibytes).
• If base 10 is in use: B (bytes), KB (kilobytes), MB (megabytes), or GB (gigabytes).
If no unit is specified, the unit is 512-byte blocks.
size max
Expands the volume to fill available space on the vdisk.
snap-pool
Name or serial number of the snap pool to expand. For volume syntax, see Command syntax on
page 22.
Example Expand snap pool SP1 by 100 GB:
# expand snap-pool size 100GB SP1
Success: Command completed successfully. (spData) - Expansion of volume spData
was started. (2012-01-21 11:08:31)
See also • show snap-pools
• show vdisks