Extend VM with NAS datastore

[stuifbergen]

Hi,

I got ESXi 6.7 running with several guests. Because I ran out of storage I want to use my Synology NAS as a datastore.

I successfully added the datastore using NFS4.1 and also added an extra hard disk to one of my VM's (Ubuntu 18.04.3). But in the VM itself the extra hard disk isn't visible. I suppose I need to do an extra step somewhere, but I can't find the right instructions to do so.

Thanks & regards,

Hans

[a_p_ · Accepted solution]

Adding a disk to an OS is only one out of several required steps.

What needs to be done is to partition the new disk, format, and mount it.

To find out whether the additional disk is visible to the OS, run e.g.

sudo fdisk -l

The new disk will most likely sow up as /dev/sdb.

André

[stuifbergen]

Thank you André. The disk is visible after sudo fdisk -l