Expanding current vmware metalun sizes not showing in vmware

[RMartilla]

I expanded (concatenate) an existing metalun (vmware_lun12) with 2 additional luns adding 400gb more of space. The space shows up in properties… see screenshot…

http://www.faster340.com/vmware1.JPG

But it doesn’t show up available to the esx servers… see screenshot… SANSTORE (1) still shows only 1tb…

http://www.faster340.com/vmware2.JPG

Any suggestions? I tried unbinding the luns and it won’t let me. It tells that it’s in use…

Thanks for your help.

Russell

[pdrace]

Expanding the Lun won't help, you can't extend the VMWare partition.

You will have to shrink the lun create a new lun and then add it to the original as an extent.

[RMartilla]

I know this isn't an emc san storage forum but are you familiar with shrinking the lun?

Thanks.

Russell M.

[pdrace]

No, we're using NetApp.

[RMartilla]

Is that the application or the site? Which app are you using to manage your san?

[pdrace]

It's the type of storage hardware.