Enabling Automatic Volume Growth in a non-clustered and clustered environment


Enabling Automatic Volume Growth in a non-clustered and clustered environment
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Automatic volume growth feature can be enabled on a non-clustered and clustered environment as shown in the below procedure.

Note:

In a cluster environment, you must configure the Veritas Scheduler Service on all nodes to allow the transfer of Capacity Monitoring and Automatic Volume Growth settings to other nodes after failover. These settings are done once for each node after the product installation or upgrade.

See Configuring the Veritas Scheduler Service on a clustered environment.

To enable the Automatic Volume Growth feature, perform the following steps:

To enable automatic volume growth in a non-clustered and clustered environment

Right-click on the volume you want to manage and click Automatic Volume Growth.
The Automatic Volume Growth wizard appears.

Click Next to continue.
Highlight any additional volumes you want to manage and click Add.
Click Next to continue.
Check the Enable automatic volume growth check box.

Set the Automatic Volume Growth parameters as follows:

Volume growth

Enter the size by which you want the volume to expand each time the growth threshold is reached.
Maximum volume size

Select the maximum volume size for the volume:

Unrestricted volume growth	Default setting. Allows the volume to grow without an upper limit to the volume size.
Restricted volume growth	Lets you enter a maximum size for the volume. The volume growth is limited to this specified size. This setting may be useful to manage a database volume that may be vulnerable to uncontrolled rapid growth due to malicious updates, spam, or virus attack.

Enable notification by email (optional) as follows:
- Send email notification when volume has reached its growth threshold
  
  Check this check box, if you want an email sent when a volume has reached its growth threshold.
  
  Enter the email address(es) to where the notifications should be sent in the Recipient E-mail Address(es) box. Separate multiple addresses with commas.
  
  Make sure that the SMTP Configuration settings have been set. If they have not, you should set them now.
Enable the check box Make policy available to another cluster node when failover, if you have a cluster environment and want the automatic volume growth policy to be available to another cluster node after a failover.

Note:

This check box is available only when the volume belongs to a cluster disk group.
Click Next to continue.
Select which disks to automatically grow the volume as follows:
- Auto select disks
  
  SFW automatically selects which disks to grow.
- Manually select disks
  
  Highlight which disks you want to grow and click Add.
  
  Click Next to continue.
Review the summary of the Automatic Volume Growth settings and click Finish to apply.