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VMware vSphere 6.5 Cookbook

You're reading from   VMware vSphere 6.5 Cookbook Over 140 task-oriented recipes to install, configure, manage, and orchestrate various VMware vSphere 6.5 components

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2018
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ISBN-13 9781787127418
Length 574 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Mathias Meyenburg Mathias Meyenburg
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Cedric Rajendran Cedric Rajendran
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

1. Upgrading to vSphere 6.5 FREE CHAPTER 2. Greenfield Deployment of vSphere 6.5 3. Using vSphere Host Profiles 4. Using ESXi Image Builder 5. Using vSphere Auto Deploy 6. Using vSphere Standard Switches 7. Using vSphere Distributed Switches 8. Creating and Managing VMFS Datastore 9. Managing Access to the iSCSI and NFS Storage 10. Storage IO Control, Storage DRS, and Profile Driven Storage 11. Creating and Managing Virtual Machines 12. Configuring vSphere 6.5 High Availability 13. Configuring vSphere DRS, DPM, and VMware EVC 14. Upgrading and Patching using vSphere Update Manager 15. Using vSphere Certificate Manager Utility 16. Using vSphere Management Assistant 17. Performance Monitoring in a vSphere Environment 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Expanding or growing a VMFS datastore

It is likely that you would run out of free space on a VMFS volume over time as you end up deploying more and more VMs on it, especially in a growing environment. Fortunately, accommodating additional free space on a VMFS volume is possible. However, this requires that the LUN either has free space left on it or it has been expanded/resized in the storage array.

The procedure to resize/expand the LUN in the storage array differs from vendor to vendor, and as this is beyond the scope of this book, we assume that the LUN either has free space on it or has already been expanded.

The following flowchart provides a high-level overview of the procedure:

Getting ready

If there is no free space...

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