https://community.hpe.com/t5/hpe-eva-storage/adding-additional-vdisk-to-msa-2012i-single-controller/m-p/4635240#M44554 <BR />Yes this is a supported way to expand your Disk Storage. <BR />You can use the SMU to perform the same. <BR /><BR />You can look at Page 58 <BR /><A href="http://bizsupport2.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c01394285/c01394285.pdf" target="_blank">http://bizsupport2.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c01394285/c01394285.pdf</A> Tue, 25 May 2010 14:45:38 GMT Shiju Samuel Thomas 2010-05-25T14:45:38Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/hpe-eva-storage/adding-additional-vdisk-to-msa-2012i-single-controller/m-p/4635239#M44553 Hi, now we have one vdisk raid5 from 6 SCSI 300 gb 15k drives on msa 2012i, we have only one controller. We buy 6 additional 450 gb 15k SCSI drives. Can I create second new Vdisk without downtime of current Vdisk when I have only one controller? I plan to use offline advanced approach of creating new Vdisk which seems to be much more faster then online creation.<BR />Is this supported way. Tue, 18 May 2010 12:29:28 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/hpe-eva-storage/adding-additional-vdisk-to-msa-2012i-single-controller/m-p/4635239#M44553 zuro 2010-05-18T12:29:28Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/hpe-eva-storage/adding-additional-vdisk-to-msa-2012i-single-controller/m-p/4635240#M44554 <BR />Yes this is a supported way to expand your Disk Storage. <BR />You can use the SMU to perform the same. <BR /><BR />You can look at Page 58 <BR /><A href="http://bizsupport2.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c01394285/c01394285.pdf" target="_blank">http://bizsupport2.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c01394285/c01394285.pdf</A> Tue, 25 May 2010 14:45:38 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/hpe-eva-storage/adding-additional-vdisk-to-msa-2012i-single-controller/m-p/4635240#M44554 Shiju Samuel Thomas 2010-05-25T14:45:38Z