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Dell Storage with Microsoft Storage Spaces Deployment Guide

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Adding new physical disks to existing storage enclosures

  1. Ensure that the physical disks added are supported by reading through the Dell Storage with Microsoft Storage Spaces Support Matrix .
  2. Install the physical disks into the storage enclosure following the guidelines in the storage enclosure owner’s manual. If the physical disks are going to be used with the Storage Spaces enclosure awareness feature, the physical disks must be allocated across the existing storage enclosures.
  3. Ensure that the newly added physical disks have been detected by the Windows Server operating system and the cluster.
  4. Update the firmware on the new physical disks to the latest supported versions listed in the Dell Storage with Microsoft Storage Spaces Support Matrix.
  5. Add the new physical disks to a storage pool by following the best practices in the Dell Storage with Microsoft Storage Spaces Best Practices Guide . By using the newly added disk space, either resize an existing virtual disk by running the command Resize-VirtualDisk for virtual disks without storage tiers; Resize-StorageTier for virtual disks with storage tiers; or create new virtual disks.
  6. If an existing virtual disk is resized, the volume on the disk must be resized by running the command Resize-Partition.

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