Increase IaaS VM storage capacity

[virtually77]

I have an IaaS VM to which we would like to expand the capacity. The storage path of the currently allocated drives (0 & 1) belong to a reservation enabled datastore that is 95-100% full.

I'm assuming if we add a net-new drive it should use one of the other reservation enabled datastores assuming capacity exists.

What if we want to increase the size of one of the existing drives (0  or 1)?

Do we have to vMotion the VM to a different datastore which is enabled on the reservation?

Or do we have to increase the datastore capacity first and then increase the reservation amount, and finally the IaaS VM?

[daphnissov]

What version of vRA are you using?

[virtually77]

vRA 7.1

[daphnissov]

You should be able to add the destination datastore(s) to a reservation with a lower priority, and then move the VM there. As for adding capacity, there are some bugs in 7.1 that cause additional drives to not be added entirely correctly, but that should allow you to extend the existing ones.