Table 5. Model upgrade MES capacity - half/full populated drives to capacity - fully populated
conguration (continued)
Target ->
Source
C1 (f)
4 NVMe
1 X 102 HDD
C2 (f)
4 NVMe
2 X 102 HDD
C3 (f)
4 NVMe
3 X 102 HDD
C4 (f)
4 NVMe
4 X 102 HDD
C3 (f) Y
C n (h) = Capacity, n x half populated 5147-102
C n (f) = Capacity, n x full populated 5147-102
Refer to the following steps to add more 5147-102 storage enclosures to an existing capacity
conguration:
1. An ESS 3500 solution in capacity conguration has at least one SAS adapter pair. Perform 5141-FN2
adapter MES instructions to install additional pair of SAS adapter if required. Refer ESS 3500 adapter
concurrent MES upgrade to follow the instructions.
2. If you are adding a new SAS adapter pair, re-cabling is required. Refer “Re-cabling guidelines from
single SAS adapter pair to dual SAS adapter pairs ” on page 41.
3. Install up to four empty 5147-102 storage enclosures to rack.
4. Populate the storage enclosure(s) with HDDs making sure to follow the drive population rules.
Note: The four 3.8TB NVMe drives for Log Tip are not available for user data storage.
a. One to four fully populated 5147-102 storage enclosures.
If the rst enclosure is half-populated conguration, upgrade to a fully populated conguration
before adding additional enclosures. Refer “Upgrading an IBM Elastic Storage System 5147-102
Storage Enclosure from a half-populated to a fully populated conguration” on page 6.
b. Use at least one SAS adapter per canister for 1 to 2 enclosures,.
c. You need two SAS adapter pairs in order to connect three or more enclosures.
Note: All enclosures must have identical number of HDDs.
5. Connect 5141-FN2 and 5147-102 enclosures.
6. Power on all storage enclosures.
7. Execute Install Complete on the storage enclosure only. For more information, see Starting ESS Code
20 App Installation process section in SSR considerations before arriving customer site topic of the
Installing chapter in ESS Hardware Planning and Installation Guide.
8. Run common system health check by using the SSR utility.
9. Customer task: Include storage enclosure(s) to recovery group (RG).
The procedure for adding newly installed HDDs from an 5147-102 enclosure to an existing lesystem
on an 5141-FN2 system is demonstrated in the example below.
Note: The procedure can be used after any storage MES as long as at least one 5147-102 storage
enclosure has been previously congured.
a. Re-size the recovery group.
mmvdisk rg resize --rg <recovery group>
b. Verify the block size of the existing lesystem.
# mmlsfs <device> -B
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