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Adding an additional RAID group to a configured appliance System maintenance AVA-400, AVA-800
The AltaVault appliance can accept additional packs of disks into added AVA10S shelves of the appliance. You can
add an additional 12-pack RAID group to a configured and running AltaVault appliance. For AV-400, the maximum
number of additional RAID groups is 5. For AV-800, the maximum number of additional RAID groups is 7. A RAID
group ships with an initialized RAID volume. The following steps apply when installing a newly preconfigured 12-
pack of disk drives into the shelf.
Before you begin
 Ensure you have an empty AVA10S shelf or an existing shelf with 12 empty disk slots. The empty slots
number from 0-11 (bottom half of the shelf) and 12-23 (top half of the shelf).
 If you are installing two sets of 12-pack disk drives, install the entire 12-pack disk drives in either in the top
half of the rack or the bottom half of the rack. Do not mix up the disks of a disk pack between the top and
bottom halves of the rack as they are preconfigured as a group.
 AltaVault appliance storage configurations support only homogeneous drive sizes; the AVA400 supports 4TB
and the AVA800 supports 6TB drives.
 Ensure the controller and the shelf are powered off. To shut down the controller, follow the procedure in the
section, “Shutting down the AltaVault controller” on page 203.
To add a 12-pack RAID group to a system
1. Place the 12 drives into the empty slots on the powered off disk shelf. The slots are numbered and grouped 0-11
and 12-23. Any drive in the 12-pack can go into any slot within the selected group.
2. Power on the shelf and then the controller.
3. Login as admin to the CLI using an SSH connection to the management NIC or serial console.
4. Enter the following CLI command in the configuration terminal:
CLI> show raidgroups
This command lists all the add-on RAID Groups connected to the AltaVault system. For the newly added RAID
group, the following message displays:
raidgroup import <vd_id>. The vd_id is an ID generated by the
system.
5. Use the following command to import the newly added RAID Group into the AltaVault system and make it
available for use.
CLI> raidgroup import <vd_id>
6. Confirm that the RAID group has been imported by running the following command:
show raidgroups
For information on replacing a faulty disk drive, see “Replacing a faulty hard disk drive on an AltaVault AVA400 or
AVA800 appliance” on page 218.