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Lounard67
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Can't expand my datastore VMFS 5

Hello,

i just add 2 disks in my disk pool on a direct attachement storage, i expand my vdisk and now i need to expand my datastore...

when i try to expand the datastore (in vmfs 5) the wizard try to expand it on Vmfs 6 so i get an error. i can't change the file system to vmfs 5, it's greyed out :

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a_p_
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Welcome to the Community,

resizing the datastore on the installation disk needs to be done from the command line.

For detailed steps see https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2002461​. If you are unsure with on of the steps, please feel free to ask.

André

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