Expanding the Online Capacity of a Virtual Drive

Online Capacity Expansion (OCE) allows the capacity of a virtual disk to be expanded by adding new physical disks or making use of unused space on existing disks, without requiring a reboot. Perform the following steps to expand the capacity of a virtual drive.

ATTENTION  Make sure to back up the data on the virtual drive before you proceed with the online capacity expansion.

1.	Navigate to the Controller dashboard, click a drive group name (for example, DG_1). Click the icon corresponding to a drive group to display its contents.

The virtual drives and physical drives associated with the selected drive group appear.

2.	Click the virtual drive whose capacity you want to expand.

3.	Select Actions > Expand.

The Expand Virtual Drive dialog appears.

4.	Select the percentage of the available capacity that you want the virtual drive to use.

5.	Click Expand.

The virtual drive expands by the selected percentage of the available capacity.