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Thanks for the input. Do you have any recommendations for max file size when formatting the new datastore?<br />
To best preserve space I'm tempted to select the 256Gb, 1Mb block size option - can you see instances where this may not be sufficient? We do not have any massive data repositories in the company at present. Would this be the limit for a single file?
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Thanks for the input. Do you have any recommendations for max file size when formatting the new datastore?
To best preserve space I'm tempted to select the 256Gb, 1Mb block size option - can you see instances where this may not be sufficient? We do not have any massive data repositories in the company at present. Would this be the limit for a single file?

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Thanks for your expert and timely advice - worked like a charm!
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Thanks for your expert and timely advice - worked like a charm!

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We have just purchased a new EVA enclosure &amp;&nbsp;disks to expand space for VM use. Disks have been grouped and presented to our ESX servers.<br />
What is the best way to make this space available to the ESX hosts (create new datastore under existing cluster?) and what are the basic steps to achieve this?<br />
If it were possible/ a good idea to add to the existing datastore I think this would be preferable.<br />
I would like to ensure that best practices are observed.
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We have just purchased a new EVA enclosure & disks to expand space for VM use. Disks have been grouped and presented to our ESX servers.
What is the best way to make this space available to the ESX hosts (create new datastore under existing cluster?) and what are the basic steps to achieve this?
If it were possible/ a good idea to add to the existing datastore I think this would be preferable.
I would like to ensure that best practices are observed.

Adding storage to vmware

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.

VMware

Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.