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Chapter 7 Preparing for Online Capacity Expansion 6. From the Logical Drive menu, choose the logical drive you want to prepare for expansion. 7. From the Logical Drive menu for the drive you want to prepare, choose Properties. 8. Choose Virtual Sizing. 9. On the Virtual Size menu, choose Enable, and confirm your choice. 10. Press ESC twice to return to the Logical Drive menu. If you need to enable Virtual Sizing on another logical drive on the same adapter, choose the logical drive and repeat steps 6 through 10. 11. If you have multiple adapters, press ESC to return to the Objects menu. Enable Virtual Sizing on the logical drives of all adapters as necessary. 12. To exit, press ESC until you see the Exit? box, and choose Yes. NOTE Clearing a previous configuration does not reset the Virtual Sizing setting for a logical drive. Use the Reset to Factory Defaults option in HP NetRAID Express Tools to disable Virtual Sizing for all logical drives, or manually change the setting. 2. Start NT and Enter the Disk Administrator. Start NT and enter the Disk Administrator. Here you see the new logical drive shown as a single unpartitioned/unformatted drive of 81,917 MB (82 GB). Although there might be only 12 GB of real storage space on the logical drive, the Online Capacity Expansion feature creates a virtual drive of 81,917 MB. 3. Partition and Format the Drive. How you partition and format a drive depends on where you installed Windows NT. • For drives that do not contain the Windows NT operating system, see "Partition and Format Drives that do not Contain Windows NT" in the following section. • If Windows NT was installed on a disk array, see the section "Partition and Format a Drive that Contains Windows NT." 90

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Chapter 7
Preparing for Online Capacity Expansion
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6.
From the Logical Drive menu, choose the logical drive you want to
prepare for expansion.
7.
From the Logical Drive menu for the drive you want to prepare, choose
Properties
.
8.
Choose
Virtual Sizing
.
9.
On the Virtual Size menu, choose
Enable
, and confirm your choice.
10.
Press ESC twice to return to the Logical Drive menu.
If you need to enable Virtual Sizing on another logical drive on the same
adapter, choose the logical drive and repeat steps 6 through 10.
11.
If you have multiple adapters, press ESC to return to the Objects menu.
Enable Virtual Sizing on the logical drives of all adapters as necessary.
12.
To exit, press ESC until you see the Exit? box, and choose
Yes
.
NOTE
Clearing a previous configuration does not reset the Virtual
Sizing setting for a logical drive. Use the Reset to Factory
Defaults option in HP NetRAID Express Tools to disable
Virtual Sizing for all logical drives, or manually change the
setting.
2.
Start NT and Enter the Disk Administrator.
Start NT and enter the Disk Administrator. Here you see the new logical drive
shown as a single unpartitioned/unformatted drive of 81,917 MB (82 GB).
Although there might be only 12 GB of real storage space on the logical drive,
the Online Capacity Expansion feature creates a virtual drive of 81,917 MB.
3.
Partition and Format the Drive.
How you partition and format a drive depends on where you installed
Windows NT.
•
For drives that do not contain the Windows NT operating system, see
"Partition and Format Drives that do
not
Contain Windows NT" in the
following section.
•
If Windows NT was installed on a disk array, see the section "Partition
and Format a Drive that Contains Windows NT."