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Perform Online capacity expansion—Expand a VD by adding a PD to a disk group

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Expand a VD by adding a hard drive to a disk group.

NOTE:This feature is available only if there is no sufficient free disk space available in the associated disk group.

Steps

  1. Navigate to the PERC Configuration Utility.
  2. Click Main Menu > Virtual Disk Management.
  3. Select the virtual disk.
  4. From the Operations drop-down menu, select Expand Virtual Disk.
  5. Click Go.
  6. Click Add Physical Disks.
  7. To expand a VD, select hard drives that you want to add to the VD.
  8. Click OK. The VD is successfully expanded.

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