I'm trying to grow the local datastore on a single esxi host environment, after adding an extra drive to the raid-array. The raid is connected to a SmartArray P400 controller, and my ESXi has the hp tools installed. Using "hpacucli" from an ssh-session I have managed to add the unused drive to the array, and resize the logical drive to utilize the newly added unused space of the array. All transformation and reindexing-processes have been completed 100%. The hpacucli correctly shows that the raid is now 280GB as opposed to 200GB beforehand.
Inside ESXi the store obviously still shows up as 200GB.
Using a guide from a vmware article on how to grow a local datastore in ESXi 5.0 im using the partedutil til resize the last partition (the vmfs partition) to utilize the new unused space of the logical drive from the array. Problem is that partedutil stil reports the last usable sector to be the exact same as the partiton already has.... Using partedutil with the getusablesector-command I get the exact same number as already is reported as the ending sector for the partition in the partitiontable..... so it seems ESXi cant't see the new size of the logical drive.
All changes so far (on the underlying storage) has been done online, with ESXi and VM's running.
Do the ESXi have to be booted in order to reread the logical drive and see the new size? (refrshing storage adapters have been tried with no success)
Do the ESXi have to be in "maint mode" in order to resize the partition table and grow the vmfs datastore? (no IO to running VM's) - or can everything be done online?
