Unable to add datastore!

[danhtran]

I am building a lab for my VMware study. I have a server with two partitions. I installed VMware Player 12 and vSphere Client. I installed VMware ESXi 6 with 40GB datastore as default.

Now I need to create virtual servers on this EXSi host and I don't have enough space. I need to add new storage but neither option disk/LUN nor Network File System I could do.

How do I add storage using my existing partition on my server? either using a local disk or create a shared folder and mapping to it or any best practice you can share.

Thanks,

[rcporto]

Using the VMware Workstation, edit your ESXi 6 virtual machine and add a new hard disk with the capacity that you want. After add the new disk, you can create a new datastore using that disk, just go to Configuration -> Storage -> Add Storage.

[continuum]

If your Workstation host is able to act as NFS-server it is quite convenient to use an NFS-share.
Running VMs from that share is much more space-efficient than running the nested VMs from vmdks that are VMFS-formatted.