I have a VMWare 5 Essentials installation that i upgraded from version 4.
I initially had 4 300 GB disks in a hardware raid. After the upgrade to version 5 i added 4 extra disks and used the HP software to extend the logical volume to 1.9 TB.
I am trying to add this new space to my VMFS datastore but am unable to.
When i select my Host in VCenter and go to Storage in the Configuration tab and then go to Devices then i can see the capacity of my disk is recognized as 1.91 TB.
It also shows the current Primary and Logical partitions:
Primary:
1. DOS 16-Bit <32M 4,00 MB
2. DOS 16-Bit >=32M 4,00 GB
3. VMFS 833,22 GB
4. Extended 896,00 MB
Logical:
1. DOS 16 Bit >=32M 250,00 MB
When i go into the Datastore Properties dialog box and click the Increase button then i should see a list of the available free space.
This list remains empty and so i can't extend the volume.
The file system is VMFS 5,54 with a 1 MB Block size.
Any help would be very much appriciated!
With kind regard,
Marcel Bouman