diff --git a/dracclient/resources/raid.py b/dracclient/resources/raid.py
index 44cea69..7a23c91 100644
--- a/dracclient/resources/raid.py
+++ b/dracclient/resources/raid.py
@@ -97,6 +97,8 @@ VirtualDisk = collections.namedtuple(
 
 NO_FOREIGN_DRIVES = ["STOR058", "STOR018"]
 
+_STARTING_LBA_AUTO_CALCULATE = '0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF'
+
 
 class RAIDAttribute(object):
     """Generic RAID attribute class"""
@@ -672,6 +674,15 @@ class RAIDManagement(object):
             virtual_disk_prop_names.append('SpanLength')
             virtual_disk_prop_values.append(str(span_length))
 
+        # Necessary when creating more than 1 VD on  same physical disks.
+        # To keep things simple, passing this all the time as no harm to pass
+        # this when creating only 1 VD taking all physical disk space.
+        # Passed value '0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF' instructs iDRAC to calculate the
+        # value programmatically on its side. For single or first VD that would
+        # be 0.
+        virtual_disk_prop_names.append('StartingLBA')
+        virtual_disk_prop_values.append(_STARTING_LBA_AUTO_CALCULATE)
+
         if error_msgs:
             msg = ('The following errors were encountered while parsing '
                    'the provided parameters: %r') % ','.join(error_msgs)
diff --git a/dracclient/tests/test_raid.py b/dracclient/tests/test_raid.py
index 7323511..7edc744 100644
--- a/dracclient/tests/test_raid.py
+++ b/dracclient/tests/test_raid.py
@@ -648,8 +648,11 @@ class ClientRAIDManagementTestCase(base.BaseTest):
                               'Name': 'DCIM:RAIDService'}
         expected_properties = {'Target': 'controller',
                                'PDArray': ['disk1', 'disk2'],
-                               'VDPropNameArray': ['Size', 'RAIDLevel'],
-                               'VDPropValueArray': ['42', '4']}
+                               'VDPropNameArray': [
+                                   'Size', 'RAIDLevel', 'StartingLBA'],
+                               'VDPropValueArray': [
+                                   '42', '4',
+                                   raid._STARTING_LBA_AUTO_CALCULATE]}
         mock_invoke.return_value = lxml.etree.fromstring(
             test_utils.RAIDInvocations[uris.DCIM_RAIDService][
                 'CreateVirtualDisk']['ok'])
@@ -676,11 +679,12 @@ class ClientRAIDManagementTestCase(base.BaseTest):
                               'Name': 'DCIM:RAIDService'}
         expected_properties = {'Target': 'controller',
                                'PDArray': ['disk1', 'disk2'],
-                               'VDPropNameArray': ['Size', 'RAIDLevel',
-                                                   'VirtualDiskName',
-                                                   'SpanDepth', 'SpanLength'],
-                               'VDPropValueArray': ['42', '4', 'name', '3',
-                                                    '2']}
+                               'VDPropNameArray': [
+                                   'Size', 'RAIDLevel', 'VirtualDiskName',
+                                   'SpanDepth', 'SpanLength', 'StartingLBA'],
+                               'VDPropValueArray': [
+                                   '42', '4', 'name', '3', '2',
+                                   raid._STARTING_LBA_AUTO_CALCULATE]}
         mock_invoke.return_value = lxml.etree.fromstring(
             test_utils.RAIDInvocations[uris.DCIM_RAIDService][
                 'CreateVirtualDisk']['ok'])