S2D - Expand Cluster from 2 to 4 nodes

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I trying to expand two node S2D cluster from 2 nodes to 4 nodes via powershell, but i unable to create right virtual disk



Remove-StorageTier -FriendlyName Capacity
Remove-StorageTier -FriendlyName Performance

New-StorageTier -StoragePoolFriendlyName S2D* -MediaType HDD -PhysicalDiskRedundancy 2 -NumberOfColumns 5 -ResiliencySettingName Mirror -FriendlyName Performance
New-StorageTier -StoragePoolFriendlyName S2D* -MediaType HDD -PhysicalDiskRedundancy 2 -NumberOfColumns 4 -ResiliencySettingName Parity -FriendlyName Capacity
$P = Get-StorageTier -FriendlyName Performance
$C = Get-StorageTier -FriendlyName Capacity

#AutoNumberOfColumns 5
#-NumberOfDataCopies 3
New-VirtualDisk -FriendlyName "vDisk01" -StoragePoolFriendlyName S2D* -ResiliencySettingName "Parity" -NumberOfDataCopies 3 -StorageTiers $P, $C -StorageTierSizes 500MB, 1TB -WriteCacheSize 128MB
Get-VirtualDisk -FriendlyName vDisk01 | Get-StorageTier

I get result:

Get-VirtualDisk -FriendlyName vDisk01 | Get-StorageTier


ObjectId : {1}\\hv-cl-002\root/Microsoft/Windows/Storage/Providers_v2\SPACES_StorageTier.ObjectId="{75e79
2bd-cc83-465c-96ef-4a21816d236c}:ST:{b2de8e85-b657-495f-82d2-cdab1cb6442a}{9336ad4e-0fd7-4f14-
b998-223119a4cceb}"
PassThroughClass :
PassThroughIds :
PassThroughNamespace :
PassThroughServer :
UniqueId : {9336ad4e-0fd7-4f14-b998-223119a4cceb}
AllocatedSize : 536870912
AllocationUnitSize : 268435456
ColumnIsolation : StorageScaleUnit
Description :
FaultDomainAwareness : StorageScaleUnit
FootprintOnPool : 1073741824
FriendlyName : vDisk01_Performance
Interleave : 262144
MediaType : HDD
NumberOfColumns : 4
NumberOfDataCopies : 1
NumberOfGroups : 1
ParityLayout : Non-rotated Parity
PhysicalDiskRedundancy : 2
ProvisioningType : Fixed
ResiliencySettingName : Parity
Size : 536870912
Usage : Data
PSComputerName :

ObjectId : {1}\\hv-cl-002\root/Microsoft/Windows/Storage/Providers_v2\SPACES_StorageTier.ObjectId="{75e79
2bd-cc83-465c-96ef-4a21816d236c}:ST:{b2de8e85-b657-495f-82d2-cdab1cb6442a}{f9727bce-cc3a-42d5-
9956-6966e9fd2c79}"
PassThroughClass :
PassThroughIds :
PassThroughNamespace :
PassThroughServer :
UniqueId : {f9727bce-cc3a-42d5-9956-6966e9fd2c79}
AllocatedSize : 1099511627776
AllocationUnitSize : 268435456
ColumnIsolation : StorageScaleUnit
Description :
FaultDomainAwareness : StorageScaleUnit
FootprintOnPool : 2199023255552
FriendlyName : vDisk01_Capacity
Interleave : 262144
MediaType : HDD
NumberOfColumns : 4
NumberOfDataCopies : 1
NumberOfGroups : 1
ParityLayout : Non-rotated Parity
PhysicalDiskRedundancy : 2
ProvisioningType : Fixed
ResiliencySettingName : Parity
Size : 1099511627776
Usage : Data
PSComputerName :



vDisk01_Performance =
ParityLayout : Non-rotated Parity
PhysicalDiskRedundancy : 2
ProvisioningType : Fixed
ResiliencySettingName : Parity

This is incorrect why i create not right?

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