Hi all,
Scenario is this.
Remote site with 2 Dell r710 ESXi 4.1 servers, 1 Dell MD3200i SAN with 12 600GB disks.
Originally when i set up the SAN i created 2 LUN's with 1TB in each LUN.
We've now ran into a situation where we have 1 server which is now needing more than 1TB of sapce on it.
I've reconfigured the array and now have a LUN that i increased to 2TB from 1TB and i now need to increase the datastore on the ESX server.
If i increase the size will it format the entire LUN or just the free space i create???
I don't want to delete any exisitng VM's on the SAN.
maximum size of a vmfs is 2TB-512B only. extend would not format the LUN. look at this blog post: http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2009/03/26/resizing-your-vmfs-the-right-way-exploring-the-next-version-...
maximum size of a vmfs is 2TB-512B only. extend would not format the LUN. look at this blog post: http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2009/03/26/resizing-your-vmfs-the-right-way-exploring-the-next-version-...
Brilliant thanks.
Thats the way i was looking at doing it just didn't want to hit the finish button without double checking.
you took the right approach going to 2TB would make your vmfs unaccessible. 😃
cheers for the help.