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Adding a Drive to a Virtual Disk

You can use MegaRAID Storage Manager to increase the capacity of an existing virtual disk by adding physical disk drives to it. In order to do this, you must be logged on to the server in All Access mode.

Be sure to back up the data on the virtual disk before you change its capacity.

To increase the capacity of a virtual disk, follow these steps:

  1. Select a controller icon in the left panel and then select Operations-> Advanced Operations->Configuration-> Reconstruction Wizard.
  2. The Reconstruction Wizard window appears.
  3. Click Add Drive.
  4. In the top panel of the next screen, select the disk drives that you want to add to the virtual disk and click the down-arrow button to add them. If you change your mind, click the up-arrow button to move a selected drive back to the top panel.
  5. When you are finished adding disk drives, click Next to continue.
  6. If desired, select a new RAID level from the drop-down menu in the lower right of the next screen. Review the displayed information for the newly expanded virtual disk.
  7. If everything is acceptable, click Finish to accept the new configuration.
  8. A Reconstruct operation begins on the virtual disk. You can monitor the progress of the reconstruction in the Group Show Progress window. To do this, select Group Operations -> Show Progress.

DB09-000159-00  July 2005
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