From the course: vSphere 6.7 Professional Part 02: Managing Storage

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Demo: Expand a VMFS datastore

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From the course: vSphere 6.7 Professional Part 02: Managing Storage

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Demo: Expand a VMFS datastore

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- [Rick] In this video, I'll show you how to extend an existing VMFS datastore. So I'm going to go to storage here, and I'm going to choose my iSCSi DS3. This is the datastore that I want to make larger. So at the moment, if I click on the summary screen, I can see that my capacity for this datastore is 9.75 gigabytes, and I've got free space of 8.34 gigabytes so what I want to do is make this thing bigger. So I'm going to start by going to my iSCSi storage system, and expanding the LUN. The LUN itself has to be bigger in order for me to expand this datastore because at the moment, the datastore is using all of the available space on that LUN. So what I'm doing in my live environment is I'm actually using a server 2016 virtual machine for my domain controller, and I'm also using it as my iSCSi server. This is my iSCSi target where all of my iSCSi datastores are hosted. So at the moment, you can see I'm shutting this…

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