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Expand Raid 5 Virtual Disk - C220 M4 - storcli - ESXi 6.0U2?

Hi, I'm trying to figure out how to expand a RAID 5 volume by adding a new disk on a C220 M4 with storcli.

My server is running VMWare 6.0U2 and it seems that the good old LSI gui tools don't work with 6.0 anymore

Does anyone know what would be the best way to do this?  Here is my setup:

(Ignore the SD cards for now, it is the HDDs I'm looking at)

Virtual Drives = 2

VD LIST :
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DG/VD TYPE State Access Consist Cache sCC Size Name
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0/0 RAID1 Optl RW Yes RWBD - 110.827 GB OS
1/1 RAID5 Optl RW Yes RWBD - 2.452 TB RAID5
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Physical Drives = 7

PD LIST :
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EID:Slt DID State DG Size Intf Med SED PI SeSz Model Sp
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252:1 13 Onln 0 110.827 GB SATA SSD N N 512B INTEL SSDSC2BB120G4 U
252:2 12 Onln 0 110.827 GB SATA SSD N N 512B INTEL SSDSC2BB120G4 U
252:3 8 Onln 1 837.258 GB SAS HDD N N 512B HUC109090CSS600 U
252:4 9 Onln 1 837.258 GB SAS HDD N N 512B HUC109090CSS600 U
252:5 10 Onln 1 837.258 GB SAS HDD N N 512B HUC109090CSS600 U
252:6 11 Onln 1 837.258 GB SAS HDD N N 512B HUC109090CSS600 U
252:7 14 UGood - 837.258 GB SAS HDD N N 512B HUC109090CSS600 D
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Kirk J
Cisco Employee
Cisco Employee

Greetings.

Disclaimer1, I have not tried this in the lab yet.

Disclaimer2, all LSI docs have the warning about backing up your data before editing any VD configs :)

storcli /c0/v1 start migrate type=raid5 option=add drives=252:5

This assumes Controller 0, VD 1, raid5 for VD1, and you are adding drive #5 in enclosure 252

Taken from http://docs.avagotech.com/docs/12352476

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