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<h1>Adding a Brick</h1>
You can expand a volume, as required, by adding new bricks to an existing volume.
<p><b>Note: </b>You need to add at least one brick to a distributed volume, two (or multiples of two) bricks to mirrored distributed volumes, and four (or multiples of four) bricks to striped distributed volumes when expanding your storage space.
<p>To add a brick to an existing volume, perform the following steps.</p>
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<li>Choose from the menu, toolbar, or right click and select the Volume and select <b>Add Bricks</b>.
<p>The Add Brick window is displayed.</p>
<p><img src="../images/GMC_add_brick.jpg" width="585" height="400"alt="Add Brick"/></p>
<li>Select the bricks that you want to add to the current volume. Click <b>Add</b> to add a specific brick or Click <b>Add All</b> to add all the available bricks.
<li>Click <b>Finish</b>. The <b>Add Brick(s)to Volume</b> window appears indicating that the brick(s) is successfully added.
<p><img src="../images/GMC_add_brick_confirm.jpg" alt="Add Brick to Volume Confirmation"/></p>
<li> Click <b>OK</b>.
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