9.4.1 Replacing Physical Drives in a Logical Drive

You can replace one or more NVMe drives in a logical drive. You may want to replace a drive to upgrade to larger physical drives, or to make physical drive size uniform across the logical drive.
CAUTION: If another physical drive in the logical drive fails during rebuild (see Rebuilding Logical Drives), you may lose data. For help solving physical drive problems, see Recovering from a Physical Drive Failure.

To replace a physical drive in a logical drive:

  1. In the Physical Devices tree in the Enterprise View, find the physical drive you want to replace; note its size and location.
  2. Set the drive state to failed. (See Setting a Physical Drive to ‘Failed’.)
  3. Remove and replace the physical drive with one of equal or greater size.
  4. Wait for the logical drive to rebuild. (See Rebuilding Logical Drives.)
  5. Repeat these steps for each physical drive you want to replace.