Adding Bricks

You can expand a volume, as required, by adding new bricks to an existing volume. To add a brick to an existing volume, perform the following steps.

Note: You need to add at least one brick to a distributed volume, two (or multiples of two) bricks to replicated volumes, and four (or multiples of four) bricks to striped volumes when expanding your storage space.

To add a brick to an existing volume, perform the following steps.

  1. Select the volume from the left pane, choose from the menu, toolbar, or right click and select Add Bricks.

    The Add Brick window is displayed.

    Add Brick

  2. Select the bricks that you want to add to the current volume. Click Add to add a specific brick or Click Add All to add all the available bricks.
  3. Click Finish. The Add Brick(s)to Volume window appears indicating that the brick(s) is successfully added.

    Add Brick to Volume Confirmation

  4. Click OK.