Growing a logical enclosure
Do not change any Serial Attached Storage or Fibre Channel components in the physical enclosure, logical enclosure, or logical interconnect group until the entire grow process has successfully completed.
You are running version 3.0.0 or later of HPE OneView.
Do not reset the Frame Link Modules on enclosures already included in the active configuration.
When physically growing to two or more frames, you must use the same model of Interconnect Link Modules in a bay set. The maximum speed of all downlinks in that bay set is based on the speed of the Interconnect Link Modules being used as well as the speeds of the mezzanine cards in the attached servers. For example, if the HPE Synergy 10Gb Interconnect Link Module is used, then the maximum speed of all downlinks in that logical interconnect is 10Gb.
HPE Synergy frames configured to support HPE Synergy Image Streamer can grow from three to a four- or five-frame configuration.
You can grow a single-frame redundant configuration up to five frames redundant, or a highly available configuration, depending on the interconnect models inserted in each bay set.
When you attempt to grow into an unsupported grow configuration, HPE OneView returns an error with resolution to rectify the errors.
Growing a redundant configuration
You can grow a single-frame, redundant configuration up to a five-frame redundant configuration.
Growing a high-availability configuration
If growing from one enclosure to a highly available multi-enclosure configuration, first grow to a two enclosure highly available configuration, and then grow a second time if more than two enclosures are in the target configuration.
To grow a single-frame, redundant configuration to a two-frame, high-availability configuration, a technician must move the master interconnect from the B-side of the existing HPE Synergy frame to the B-side of the second HPE Synergy frame. The technician then adds an Interconnect Link Module to the B-side of the existing HPE Synergy frame and to the A-side of the second HPE Synergy frame.