Expanding The Capacity of a Logical Drive While Online

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

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

1.	Navigate to the Controller dashboard, click an array name (for example, Array_1). Click the icon corresponding to a array to display its contents.

The logical drives an drives associated with the selected array appear.

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

3.	Select More Actions > Expand.

The Expand Logical Drive dialog appears.

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

5.	Click Expand.

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