Please, check this KB article and make sure all necessary steps was done: Migrating the vCenter Server database from SQL Express to full SQL Server (1028601)
You need confirme if the 4 paths to LUN are across differents Fabrics, cause maybe you have 4 paths trough only one Fabric, and if the switch from this Frabric goes down do you will loose access ...
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You need confirme if the 4 paths to LUN are across differents Fabrics, cause maybe you have 4 paths trough only one Fabric, and if the switch from this Frabric goes down do you will loose access to storage system. Do you have two HBA ? Each one connected to a different switch ? If you confirm that your 4 paths are across differents Fabrics and each HBA has access to all storage system controller processor, you can safety put down one of Fabric and ESXi will manager the paths down.
Patrick, First, to add a new disk to a VM, the datastore where do you will create the disk must be visible to the ESXi host where VM is running... if this is true, follow the procedure from ES...
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Patrick, First, to add a new disk to a VM, the datastore where do you will create the disk must be visible to the ESXi host where VM is running... if this is true, follow the procedure from ESXi documentation: Add a New Hard Disk to a Virtual Machine in the vSphere Web Client
Yes, seems like you're trying migrate a Placeholder VM... and if you want do this, you will need to create a new Placeholder datastore and change the Placeholder datastore for the new one. Che...
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Yes, seems like you're trying migrate a Placeholder VM... and if you want do this, you will need to create a new Placeholder datastore and change the Placeholder datastore for the new one. Check this blog for procedures: Site Recovery Manager – Changing a placeholder datastore
You need at least that FDQN of your vCenter server is resolvable and if you don't have DNS server in your lab, try setting up host files... and about AD, if you don't have Active Directory domain...
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You need at least that FDQN of your vCenter server is resolvable and if you don't have DNS server in your lab, try setting up host files... and about AD, if you don't have Active Directory domain or the vCenter Server belongs to a workgroup, not all functionality is available. To see list of software requirements and best practices to install vCenter Server, check this KB: article: Installing vCenter Server 5.5 best practices (2052334)
Try shutdown virtual machine before try expand again, cause extend VMDK beyond 2TB is only supported with virtual machine Powered Off. Support for virtual machine disks larger than 2 TB in VMw...
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Try shutdown virtual machine before try expand again, cause extend VMDK beyond 2TB is only supported with virtual machine Powered Off. Support for virtual machine disks larger than 2 TB in VMware ESXi 5.5 (2058287)