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July 27th, 2021 19:00

You can not add more disk to a existing disk group if there are more than one virtual disk on that group. 

Below link have more details on that

https://www.dell.com/support/manuals/en-in/poweredge-rc-h330/perc9ugpublication/reconfiguration-of-virtual-disks?guid=guid-aad79692-439f-4743-bfbe-1f054957cd49&lang=en-us 

"Online Expansion Capacity is allowed on a disk group with a single virtual disk that begins at the start of the physical disk. It is not allowed when there is a free space at the beginning of a disk."

You can not merge two virtual disk to one as well.

I would recommend to take backup of both virtual disk and delete existing virtual disks. Noe create new virtual disks with all 5 drives and copy the backup to new virtual disks

Another option is

  • take a backup of second virtual disk you created
  • delete the second virtual disk
  • add more disk to the backplane and expand the existing RAID to add these 2 drive and expand the capacity of first virtual disk
  • Create one more virtual disk with required capacity

This second option will only work with only single virtual disk in RAID that begins at the start of the physical disk

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July 28th, 2021 07:00

You can create a third VD with the new 2 hard drive. We can not add those drives to existing VD as there are 2 virtual disk part of that group 

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July 28th, 2021 07:00

So I cannot add a third VD?

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July 28th, 2021 07:00

You can add a third VD, but it will need to be a RAID 1 with two disks.

Only way to add them to your existing RAID 5 is to backup and delete the second VD, reconfigure the RAID 5 to add the new disks, recreate the second VD and restore the data to it.

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July 28th, 2021 08:00

Ok, thanks. 

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