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Add Capacity Steps

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5.8

Add Capacity Steps

The following steps provide detailed instructions on adding capacity.

Step 1.

Click the drive icon for each physical drive to add. The physical
drive must be in the

READY

state before it can be added to a

logical drive.

Step 2.

Click the icon for the logical drive to which you want to add the
physical drive.

Step 3.

Select Add Capacity from the Logical Drive menu.

Step 4.

Click OK when prompted to confirm the new logical drive
configuration.

Step 5.

You can also select a new RAID level for the selected logical
drive when the Select RAID Level prompt appears. You can
select any RAID level that is not grayed out.

Step 6.

Click OK to complete the operation.

Important:

The MegaRAID controller cannot add a drive while
reconstructing a drive.