"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
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.
DELL-Shine K
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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
This second option will only work with only single virtual disk in RAID that begins at the start of the physical disk
DELL-Shine K
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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
dpacheco
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July 28th, 2021 07:00
So I cannot add a third VD?
theflash1932
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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.
dpacheco
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July 28th, 2021 08:00
Ok, thanks.