Adding physical drives to an existing configuration

You can add physical drives (also called logical drive migration or LDM) to dynamically modify an existing array and its logical drives. To add physical drives, you might want to review the following information:

The Main Tree displays only Ready drives that are at least the same size as the smallest physical drive in the selected array. The system icon is the root of the Main Tree. From the root, the tree expands in the following order:

  1. Controller
  2. Physical drives
  3. Channel
  4. Drive

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