Create A Virtual Disk; Add A Hard Drive To A Storage Pool; Extend A Virtual Disk - Seagate Business Storage Windows Server 4-Bay NAS Administration Manual

3. Managing Storage
4. Right-click one of the unallocated volumes and select New RAID-5 Volume.
5. Use the New RAID-5 Volume wizard to create the volume
The time to complete the process depends on the total capacity. You can use the volume
while it creates the RAID volume but performance might be affected.

Create a virtual disk

1. Open Server Manager.
2. After Server Manager has polled the server storage, in the left menu, select File and
Storage Service.
3. Under Volumes, select Storage Pools and choose the storage pool you want to use for
the virtual disk.
4. Select Tasks > New Virtual Disk.
5. Use the New Virtual Disk wizard to create a virtual disk.
When naming the virtual disk, use a name short enough to fit in the Server Manager list.
A virtual disk must have a file system before it can be used by PCs on the network. For more
information, see Volumes.

Add a hard drive to a storage pool

To add a hard drive to a storage pool, it must first be inserted into the server's enclosure. You
cannot add USB or USM hard drives to storage pools.
1. In Server Manager, select Storage Pools under Volumes.
2. Right-click the storage pool that you want to expand and select Add Physical Disk.
The available physical disks display.
3. Select the disk to add to the storage pool and click OK.
Important: You can view unallocated portions of disks that are added to storage pools in
Disk Management. However, if an entire disk has been added to a storage pool, it is not be
visible in Disk Management.

Extend a virtual disk

You can increase the size of a virtual disk.
1. In Server Manager, select Storage Pools under Volumes.
2. Select the storage pool that contains the virtual disk.
The list of virtual disks displays.
3. Right-click the virtual disk that you want to expand and select Extend Virtual Disk.
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