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.
Thanks!
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 -
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 -
This is a native VMFS 5 datastore that was created on ESXi 5.0, then the server was upgraded to 5.5.
Thanks for the sanity check. I just did the extend and it worked fine.
