Extending a dynamic simple or spanned volume – Dell PowerVault 775N (Rackmount NAS Appliance) User Manual
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You are prompted to select whether to create a partition or a volume. Ensure that the Dynamic volume button is
highlighted.
The dynamic group to which the volume will belong is automatically created and appears selected.
3. Click Next.
You are prompted for the volume layout and size of the volume to create.
4. Select the concatenated dynamic volume types.
NOTE:
Software mirroring, striping, and software RAID are not recommended because of performance
degradation.
5. Provide a size in MB or GB.
6. Click Next.
When you create the volume, you will see a Query Max Size button. Query Max Size works differently depending on
whether you have one disk or multiple disks selected.
If you have no disks selected and you click Query Max Size, the size shown in the Total volume size entry
field will be the maximum for all available disks.
If a disk or disks are selected and you click Query Max Size, the size indicated will be the maximum size for the
selected disk(s). However, if you click Query Max Size a second time, the size will be the maximum for all
available disks.
7. After all selections are made, verify your settings, and then click Next.
You can choose a different disk for the volume you are creating.
8. Click Modify to display the Modify Disks dialog box.
9. Click the disk you want to change, and then click the arrow to select a disk from the drop-down menu.
10. Choose a drive letter.
11. Click Next.
12. Format the volume using NTFS as the volume type.
13. Select an allocation unit size, if you chose to use a size other than the default.
14. Choose the file system type and, if wanted, a formatting option.
NOTE:
Quick format formats the disk without checking for bad sectors.
15. Click Next, and then click Finish.
Extending a Dynamic Simple or Spanned Volume
You can extend a volume only if the following are true:
The volume is formatted as NTFS.
The volume was originally created on a dynamic disk.
Unallocated space exists on a dynamic disk onto which the volume will be extended.