VMFS

Sep
11

Expanding VSphere VMFS Datastore LUNs

Mike Kramer on September 11th, 2010

A new way to expand a VMFS Datastore: Expand a LUN on the SAN to the desired size (up to 2 TB), then expanding the VMFS datastore from your VSphere Client.

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Mar
2

How to Expand a VMFS partition on a SAN

Mike Kramer on March 2nd, 2010

VMWare’s VMFS 3 allows adding extents on the fly, and from either a separate LUN on a SAN or from extra space within a LUN that was expanded or migrated to a larger LUN.  However, because it is possible doesn’t mean it should be done.  There are 2 accepted ways to increase the size of [...]

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