Resizing a datastore enables you to increase or decrease the storage for your virtual machine files. You might need to change the size of a datastore as your infrastructure requirements change.
Before you begin
If you want VSC to resize the containing volume when it resizes the VMFS
datastore, you should not use the
Use existing volume option under
Storage attributes section when initially provisioning VMFS
datastore, but instead let it automatically create a new volume for each
datastore.
About this task
You can increase or decrease the size of an NFS
datastore. You can only increase the size of a VMFS
datastore.
Steps
- From the vSphere Client Home page, click Hosts and Clusters.
- In the navigation pane, select the datacenter that contains the datastore.
- Right-click the datastore and select .
- In the Resize dialog box, specify a new size for the datastore, and then click OK.
You can run the REDISCOVER ALL option in the Storage Systems menu to manually update the storage listing under Storage Systems and dashboard, or wait for the next scheduled refresh.