Dell PowerVault MD3200 Owner's Manual - Page 148
Add Physical Disks, Physical Disks to add, Increase capacity by, Logical, Go to step 9.
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7 If unassigned physical disks are not available, do you have empty slots in the expansion enclosures? • Yes, there are empty slots-Insert new physical disks by using the information in the initial setup guide for your expansion enclosure. Go to step 9. • No, there are no empty slots-Install another expansion enclosure and additional physical disks. Use the information in the initial setup guides for your RAID controller module and your expansion enclosure. Go to step 9. NOTE: The physical disks that you add must be of the same media type and interface type as the physical disks that already make up the disk group of the snapshot repository virtual disk. 8 Click Add Physical Disks. NOTE: The physical disks that appear has a capacity that is either the same size or larger than the capacity of the physical disks already being used by the disk group. 9 Select either a single physical disk to add or two physical disks to add. 10 Click Add. The Add Physical Disks window closes. 11 Check the Physical Disks to add [enclosure, slot] area to make sure that the correct physical disks have been added. 12 Either accept the final capacity, or enter or select the appropriate capacity in Increase capacity by. 13 Click OK. The Logical tab is updated. The snapshot repository virtual disk that is having its capacity increased shows a status of Operation in Progress. In addition, the snapshot repository virtual disk shows its original capacity and the total capacity being added. The Free Capacity node involved in the increase shows a reduction in capacity. If all of the free capacity is used to increase the size of the virtual disk, the Free Capacity node involved is removed from the Logical tab. 148 Configuration: Premium Feature-Snapshot Virtual Disks