Storage-Hard Drive Installation

[dleggett811]

I am new to VMWare and recently added two 146GB hard drives on our HP Smart Array P400 controller which is running ESXI 5.0.   I have expanded this and extended on our controller.   I need to be able for this to show up on our datastore which it isn't and then need to provision them out to a couple different servers.   Could someone help me out or point me in the right direction?   Thanks for your help!.

Derrick

[admin]

Hello,

Follow this KB : it might need an increase

VMware KB: Growing or expanding a VMFS volume or datastore

Let me know if this does not help.,

Thanks,
Avinash

[abhilashhb]

When you add more space on the storage side it will not show up on the datastore. You need to go to your Host---->Configuration---Right click the datastore you need to expand---->Increase. And the added space will show up there which can be expanded.

[dleggett811]

Thanks for your help, I will look into that.

[dleggett811]

Do I need to take this offline to make these changes?   These are in production.

[abhilashhb]

No you can do it on the fly. Do it after hours to avoid any issues.

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[a_p_]

I may be wrong, but increasing the datastore on the installation disk isn't supported as far as I know. From what I understood you expanded the logical volume rather than creating a second one on the additional disk space in the RAID set!? What may work is to increase the size from the command line.

André

[dleggett811]

I will do this as soon as I get through doing the steps, I may have more questions, but both have helped so far.    Much appreciative!

[dleggett811]

Then I would go to each server and hand out the necessary hd space?

[abhilashhb]

If it's individually provisioned, yes. If it's shared storage you will have to do it on one and rescan on other's. But in your case I don't think it's shared.

[dleggett811]

Here is our setup.

[admin]

Hello,

as per your set-up If you have increased the size then you should be able to see the Increases size on the storage adapters after a rescan.

Once you see the increases thane your could increase the datatsore.

[dleggett811]

After the 2nd screenshot that you sent, I tried to see if it would find my device and I didn't see the Local VMware disk as it did on the 2nd screen, any thoughts?

[a_p_]

Did you see my previos post? To see what's required to increase the local datastore take a look at VMware KB: Growing a local datastore from the command line in vSphere ESXi 4.x and 5.x. I'd strongly recommend you backup the VM's prior to running the commands which modify the partition/datastore! If you are unsure, please don't hesitate to ask.

André

[dleggett811]

Thank you all for your help.   I apologize for not getting back, I had three other projects going on at the same time that I am heavily involved in.    I was able to finally get it added.   I ended up having to use a.p.'s last post using the command line to accomplish this.   Once it saw it there I was able to provision it out to other servers.  Thanks again.