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resized lun but vmware does not see

TDUBB1234 — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 06:38:00 GMT

I initially created and mounted a 500gb lun into esxi. then I resized the lun in system manager to 800gb. then I unmounted the lun in vmware and deleted it Then rescanned all adapters and tried to readd the lun but vmware does not see the 800gb. it still see the lun as a 500g lun.

any ideas?

Re: resized lun but vmware does not see

sharmadevender — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 11:02:31 GMT

Which version of ESXi ?

Storage end if you increased the size..

On ESX side.

vmfs datastore-> properties->increase (here it will show the lun which you have increased).

It will not go as extend.

Hope it helps

Re: resized lun but vmware does not see

martin_fisher — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 11:25:33 GMT

Whats the Output of "lun show -v" from the CLI of the Filer.

Re: resized lun but vmware does not see

gavin_meadows — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 14:27:51 GMT

VMware will not reconize the aditional space until you increase the VMFS file system partition. Just like if you increase the VMDK of a VM you then need to extend the Windows partition by logging into the VM and using Disk Management - until you do this the extra disk space doesnt show up in Windows right?

Similarly in ESXi you need to right click on the Datastore you increased on the SAN>Properties>>Increase - Then select the LUN (which will now have an addional 300GB of space) and follow the wizard. This will then extend the VMFS partition and the new size will be visable on the Datastore.

In future you should install the Virtual Storage Console (VSC) as this will do all this for you within vCenter. Right click Datastore>Netapp>Provisioning and Cloning>Resize - then just follow the wizard and it will resize the lun on the SAN, Extend the VMFS partition & and rescan the HBA's - all for free. Thanks Netapp!!

Re: resized lun but vmware does not see

TDUBB1234 — Tue, 29 Nov 2016 00:17:52 GMT

rw-ntap2> lun show -v /vol/dr_esx_lun27_vol/dr_esx_lun27
/vol/dr_esx_lun27_vol/dr_esx_lun27 2t (2199023255552) (r/w, online, mapped)
Serial#: 800Ee$D0kMFf
Share: none
Space Reservation: disabled
Multiprotocol Type: vmware
Maps: rw_esxi1_igroup=43 rw_esxi2_igroup=43 rw_esxi3_igroup=43 rw_esxi4_igroup=43 rw_esxi5_igroup=36 rw_esxi6_igroup=36 rw_esxi7_igroup=36
Occupied Size: 1.5t (1683591368704)
Creation Time: Wed Mar 23 17:00:22 PDT 2016
Cluster Shared Volume Information: 0x0
Read-Only: disabled

increasing it on the vmware side does not show the expanded disk

Re: resized lun but vmware does not see

Naveenpusuluru — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 13:13:03 GMT

Hi @TDUBB1234

From your output i am seeing the size of the lun as 2 TB. Please check once again.