ESXi 5.1 LUN/datastore not visible when trying to "Add Storage"

[vmwareuser2014]

I just added two 300GB hard drives to my RAID, reconstructed it, and verified that the size has increased in OpenManage, but I'm unable to actually increase the size of the datastore living on the RAID from within the vSphere client. See the attached pics. In pic 1, you can see the new size in OpenManage. In pic 2, you can see the datastore I want to enlarge. Refresh or Rescan All has no effect. When I click Add Storage, you can see in pic 3 that there are no datastores to choose from. The same thing happened back in November when I added a drive, but it was under warranty and a Dell technician remoted in and did some fancy partition table/file system management while SSHed in to resolve the issue. Do I need to do the same thing or is there another way? If the former, how?

[f10]

Hi,

Did you try to "Increase" the datastore using the datastore properties?

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[vmwareuser2014]

Yes. An "Increase Datastore Capacity" window opens. "Extend Device" is highlighted in the left sidebar and no devices show up in the field to the right.

[vmwareuser2014 · Accepted solution]

I solved this through the command line. I followed the instructions at Growing a local datastore from the command line in vSphere ESXi 4.x and 5.x.

If you were stuck in the GUI like I was and you find the command line daunting, just pay attention to what every step is telling you and document what you are doing as you do it so you don't get lost. If you learn what you are doing as you are doing it, it actually all makes sense.

[Shrikant_Gavhan]

Hi vmwareuser2014,

Are you trying to expand the LUN from vcenter if yes, please connect to that perticular esxi via vsphere client and then try to increase the space.

You should be able to do it then. It works.

Thanks and Regards,

Shrikant Gavhane.

[ksar298]

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