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Question about datastore over 2 TB on ESXi 5.5

I have a datastore that is currently at 2 TB. I need to grow it a little bigger for snapshot space. We are running ESXi 5.5. Is there anything special I need to do or worry about when adding space to the LUN to make it over 2TB? This is the first datastore I've had that is this big so I want to see if there are any special considerations.

I plan to go into my SAN management software, increase the size of the LUN, then go into vSphere, rescan storage, and add the extra space to the datastore.

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That should do it - the only isssue is if this is a legacy VMFS datastore (upgraded from VMFS3) it is my understanding evan if it has been upgraded to VMFS5 you will not be able to go beyond 2 TB -

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That should do it - the only isssue is if this is a legacy VMFS datastore (upgraded from VMFS3) it is my understanding evan if it has been upgraded to VMFS5 you will not be able to go beyond 2 TB -

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This is a native VMFS 5 datastore that was created on ESXi 5.0, then the server was upgraded to 5.5.

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Thanks for the sanity check. I just did the extend and it worked fine.

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