https://community.hpe.com/t5/msa-storage/shutdown-msa2012fc-while-vdisk-expand/m-p/6327607#M7452 <P>Hi!</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>A customer bought some new disks for his MSA2012fc and ist expanding a RAID5 vdisk. This takes a lot of time and will probably last about a week...</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>On saturday the whole machine should be shut down, because of work on current there. Can this be done while the vdisk is still expanding?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>best regards</P><P>Klaus</P> Wed, 08 Jan 2014 08:08:29 GMT Weyerk 2014-01-08T08:08:29Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/msa-storage/shutdown-msa2012fc-while-vdisk-expand/m-p/6327607#M7452 <P>Hi!</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>A customer bought some new disks for his MSA2012fc and ist expanding a RAID5 vdisk. This takes a lot of time and will probably last about a week...</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>On saturday the whole machine should be shut down, because of work on current there. Can this be done while the vdisk is still expanding?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>best regards</P><P>Klaus</P> Wed, 08 Jan 2014 08:08:29 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/msa-storage/shutdown-msa2012fc-while-vdisk-expand/m-p/6327607#M7452 Weyerk 2014-01-08T08:08:29Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/msa-storage/shutdown-msa2012fc-while-vdisk-expand/m-p/6338867#M7467 <P>It can, as long as the controllers are shutdown properly. &nbsp;The expansion operation should pick up where it left off prior to the shutdown.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>-Bob</P> Thu, 16 Jan 2014 21:42:46 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/msa-storage/shutdown-msa2012fc-while-vdisk-expand/m-p/6338867#M7467 Robert_Jewell 2014-01-16T21:42:46Z