Expand every Portworx storage pool in your cluster

You can use Autopilot to expand Portworx every storage pool in your cluster until they reach a certain capacity.

Autopilot uses Portworx APIs to expand storage pools, and these APIs currently support the following cloud providers:

• Azure
• AWS
• VMware vSphere
• FlashArray
• Google Cloud Platform

Prerequisites

• Portworx version: Autopilot uses Portworx APIs to expand storage pools which is available only in Portworx 2.3.1 and above
• Portworx cloud drives: Your Portworx installation must use one of the supported cloud drives where Portworx provisions the backing drives using the cloud provider
• Autopilot version: 1.0.0 and above

Example

The following example Autopilot rule uses the add-disk scale type to resize all Portworx storage pools in the cluster until all of them exceed 400GiB:

apiVersion: autopilot.libopenstorage.org/v1alpha1
kind: AutopilotRule
metadata:
  name: pool-expand-till-400
spec:
  enforcement: required
  ##### conditions are the symptoms to evaluate.
  conditions:
    expressions:
    # pool size is less than 400 GiB
    - key: "px_pool_stats_total_bytes/(1024*1024*1024)"
      operator: Lt
      values:
        - "400"
  ##### action to perform when condition is true
  actions:
    - name: "openstorage.io.action.storagepool/expand"
      params:
        # resize pool by scalepercentage of current size. The 100% shown below will double the current pool size.
        scalepercentage: "100"
        # when scaling, add disks to the pool
        scaletype: "add-disk"

Consider the key sections in this spec: conditions and actions.

The conditions section establishes threshold criteria dictating when the rule must perform its action. In this example, that criteria contains a single formula:

• The px_pool_stats_total_bytes/(1024*1024*1024) key calculates the total pool capacity in GiB
• The Lt operator sets the threshold criteria at the 400GiB value

The actions section specifies what action Portworx performs when the conditions are met. Action parameters modify action behavior, and different actions contain different action parameters. In this example, the actions section directs Portworx to do 2 things:

• Double the size of the pool by adding 100 percent of the scaleprecentage to the pool
• Scale the pool by adding disks to it

note

Autopilot expands the pools such that no volume in the system will go out of quorum. For example, if volume1 has replicas on pool1 and pool2, Autopilot first expands pool1, waits for completion, and then expands pool2.