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0. Preparation in advance

= previous server 1T hard drive =

Add a hard disk, here is a 1T hard disk, mounted on the server.

= goal: to achieve a 1.8T storage pool datastore=

1. Open the ssh port of EXSi 6.7

1.1 Press F2 to enter the login interface, enter the user name and password, and Troublesboot   Options   press enter key to enter the subordinate page

1.2 when selecting the ssh option is the enter key toggle enabled or disabled. (shows that Disable is on, which is the off option)

two。 Add a physical disk to ESXi storage and identify it as a virtual disk

2.1 after entering SSH using Xshell, first look for the previous physical hard disk

Find physical disk command:

# ls-l / vmfs/devices/disks/

Here are the results

By comparing the picture with the previous server, we can judge that the red box above is my previous hard drive.

Here are the physical devices seen in Storage

2.2 vmdk that identifies a physical hard disk as a virtual disk

The configuration template is

# vmkfstools-z / vmfs/devices/disks/ / vmfs/volumes/datastore1/.vmdk

My command here is as follows, defining a new vmdk virtual disk for 1tST

# vmkfstools-z / vmfs/devices/disks/t10.ATA_ST1000DM0032D1SB102__Z9A32M34 / vmfs/volumes/datastore1/1tST.vmdk

2.3 enter the management web, refresh the page, and you can see the new hard disk in the device. After clicking, the hard disk will appear on the device.

3. Add a hard disk through the management page and increase the capacity of the storage pool

At this point, you can see that the second physical hard disk can be recognized.

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3.1 New Storage Pool datastore2

3.2 format the previous hard drive to VMFS 6 format

3.3 confirm and complete the formatting

At this point, a second storage pool appears and you can continue to add disks to VM

Merge datastore2 into datastore1 to achieve a 2T disk

3.4.1 Click datastore2, enter, and then "delete"

3.4.2 Click datastore1, "add capacity"

3.4.3 add a datastore to an existing VMFS data store for datastore1

3.4.4 A 1T hard disk created as VMFS at the beginning of the previous ST is selected.

3.4.5 confirm completion

> finally, we see that the goal has been achieved, and the storage pool has been successfully expanded to 1.8T

Official website material link: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1017530?lang=zh_CN#q=%E8%A3%B8

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