Vmware EXSi 6.7 physical disk expansion

0.5 preparation
before ========= ========= server 1T hard
to add a hard drive, here is a piece of ready 1T hard drive, mounted on the server.
============= goal: to achieve a storage pool datastore ======== of 1.8T


1. Turn EXSi ssh port 6.7

1.1 press F2 to enter the login screen, enter your user name and password, Troublesboot Options press the enter key to enter the lower page;
Vmware EXSi 6.7 physical disk expansion
1.2 ssh option is selected enter key switch to enable or disable. (Disable display is turned on, the option is turned off)
Vmware EXSi 6.7 physical disk expansion


2. Add the physical disk storage to ESXi, identified as a virtual disk

After 2.1 Xshell enter SSH, before the first physical hard disk to find
find the physical disk command:

# ls -l /vmfs/devices/disks/
Here are the results
Vmware EXSi 6.7 physical disk expansion
by the previous server comparison chart, you can determine the above red box is my hard drive before
the physical device is seen below in the "storage" in the
Vmware EXSi 6.7 physical disk expansion
2.2 to physical hard disk is identified as a vmdk virtual disk
configuration templates
# vmkfstools -z /vmfs/devices/disks/<--ls -l /vmfs/devices/disk--查到的物理磁盘块编号> /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/<--自定义新的虚拟磁盘名称-->.vmdk

I have here the following command, we define a new 1tST of vmdk virtual disk

# vmkfstools -z /vmfs/devices/disks/t10.ATA_____ST1000DM0032D1SB102__________________________________Z9A32M34
 /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/1tST.vmdk

2.3 into the management web, refresh the page, the device can be seen, the new hard drive, click, there will be the hard disk device
Vmware EXSi 6.7 physical disk expansion


3. Add management page through the hard disk, and increase the storage capacity of the pool
at this time may have been seen to identify a second physical disks
Vmware EXSi 6.7 physical disk expansion
.
3.1 new storage pool datastore2
Vmware EXSi 6.7 physical disk expansion

3.2 before the drive is formatted in the format VMFS 6
Vmware EXSi 6.7 physical disk expansion
confirm completion and formatting 3.3
Vmware EXSi 6.7 physical disk expansion
Vmware EXSi 6.7 physical disk expansion

At this point, there has been a second storage pool, you can continue to add disks to a VM
Vmware EXSi 6.7 physical disk expansion

3.4 datastore2 merged into datastore1, the realization of a disk of 2T
3.4.1 click datastore2, go after the operation "Delete"

Vmware EXSi 6.7 physical disk expansion
3.4.2 click datastore1, "increase capacity"
Vmware EXSi 6.7 physical disk expansion

3.4.3 "Adding to an existing VMFS data store the data area" for the datastore1
Vmware EXSi 6.7 physical disk expansion
beginning ST checked prior to 3.4.4, it has been created as a 1T hard disk VMFS
Vmware EXSi 6.7 physical disk expansion
3.4.5 confirm completion
Vmware EXSi 6.7 physical disk expansion


Finally, we see the purpose of reaching the storage pool for the successful expansion 1.8T
Vmware EXSi 6.7 physical disk expansion

Information on the official website link: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1017530?lang=zh_CN#q=%E8%A3%B8

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