Dell EMC PowerEdge RAID Controller S130 User’s Guide

The capacity of a virtual disk can be expanded online by using the Online Capacity Expansion/Reconfigure (OCE/Reconfigure). OCE/Reconfigure is a process that allows you to add storage capacity to an existing virtual disk. In most cases additional storage capacity can be added without taking the system offline.

OCE/Reconfigure enables you to increase the total storage capacity of a virtual disk by integrating unused storage with the virtual disk.

Data can be accessed while the physical disks are added (if a system has hot-swap capability) and while data on the virtual disk is being redistributed.

For volume, RAID 1, and RAID 10, OCE/Reconfigure expands the virtual disk by using the available space of the physical disks, which have been members of the virtual disk. For RAID 0 and RAID 5, additional capacity can be attained by adding physical disks to the virtual disk.