Add a Capacity Device

You can add a capacity device to an existing vSAN disk group.

You cannot add a shared device to a disk group.

Prerequisites

Verify that the device is formatted and is not in use.

Procedure

1. Navigate to the vSAN cluster.
2. Click the Configure tab.
3. Under vSAN, click Disk Management.
4. Select a disk group.
5. Click the Add Disks at the bottom of the page.
6. Select the capacity device that you want to add to the disk group.
7. Click OK or Add.
   The device is added to the disk group.