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ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere 10.1

Resize NFS and VMFS datastores

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Resizing a datastore enables you to increase the storage for your virtual machine files. You can change the size of a datastore as your infrastructure requirements change.

About this task

You can only increase the size of an NFS and VMFS datastores. A FlexVol volume that is part of a NFS and VMFS datastores cannot shrink below the existing size but can grow by 120% maximum.

Steps

  1. From the vSphere Client home page, click Hosts and Clusters.

  2. In the navigation pane, select the datacenter that contains the datastore.

  3. Right-click the NFS or VMFS datastore and select NetApp ONTAP tools > Resize datastore.

  4. In the Resize dialog box, specify a new size for the datastore, and then click OK.