# Managing Virtual Drives

The LSI Storage Authority software lets you perform various operations on the virtual drives.

- Viewing Virtual Drive Properties
- Modifying Virtual Drive Properties
- Start and Stop Locating a Virtual Drive
- Erasing a Virtual Drive
- Initializing a Virtual Drive
- Starting Consistency Check on a Virtual Drive
- Expanding the Online Capacity of a Virtual Drive
- Deleting a Virtual Drive
- Behavior of Virtual Drive Operations on VMware
- Hiding and Unhiding a Virtual Drive or a Drive Group