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VMware vSphere 5.1 Cookbook

By : Abhilash G B
Book Image

VMware vSphere 5.1 Cookbook

By: Abhilash G B

Overview of this book

Amidst all the recent competition from Citrix and Microsoft, VMware's vSphere product line is still the most feature rich and futuristic product in the virtualization industry. Knowing how to install and configure vSphere components is important to give yourself a head start towards virtualization using VMware. If you want to quickly grasp the installation and configuration procedures, especially by using the new vSphere 5.1 web client, this book is for you.VMware vSphere 5.1 Cookbook will take you through all the steps required to accomplish a task with minimal reading required. Most of the tasks are accompanied with relevant screenshots with an intention to provide a visual guidance as well.The book has many useful recipes that will help you progress through the installation of VMware ESXi 5.1 and vCenter Server 5.1. You will learn to use Auto Deploy and Image Profiles to deploy stateless/stateful ESXi servers, configure failover protection for virtual machines using vSphere HA, configure automated load balancing using vSphere DRS and DPM. Finally, the book guides you through upgrading or patching ESXi servers using VMware Update Manager and also deploying and configuring vSphere Management Assistant (VMA) to be able to run scripts to manage the ESXi servers.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
VMware vSphere 5.1 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Expanding/growing a VMFS datastore


It is likely that you run out of free space on a VMFS volume over time, as you end up deploying more and more VMs on it. Fortunately, accommodating additional free space on a VMFS volume is possible. But this requires that the LUN either has free space left on it or has been expanded.

In this section, we will learn how to increase the size of a VMFS volume on a LUN that has been expanded or already has RAW free space on it.

How to do it...

We can expand a VMFS datastore by using the following two methods:

  • Using the Increase Datastore Capacity wizard

  • Using vmkfstools

Before attempting to grow the VMFS datastore, issue a rescan on the HBAs to make sure that the ESXi sees the increased size of the LUN.

Make a note of the NAA ID, LUN number, and size of the LUN backing the VMFS datastore that you are trying to expand/grow.

Using the Increase Datastore Capacity wizard

We will go through the following process to expand an existing VMFS datastore:

  1. Use the vSphere Web Client...