Bladey001
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Reclaiming disk space from a VM
Dear Experts
I have very clumsily made a blunder and hoping someone can help me out!
Our file server (a VM) has multiple virtual hard disks attached. One of them was running low on disk space so i increased the provisioned size of the disk through vSphere client but i did it on the wrong virtual disk!
So now when i rescan disks on the VM i've got a virtual disk with 40GB of unallocated space.
Is there anything i can do to get that space back?
I have very clumsily made a blunder and hoping someone can help me out!
Our file server (a VM) has multiple virtual hard disks attached. One of them was running low on disk space so i increased the provisioned size of the disk through vSphere client but i did it on the wrong virtual disk!
So now when i rescan disks on the VM i've got a virtual disk with 40GB of unallocated space.
Is there anything i can do to get that space back?
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Raheem05
They are FC SAN attached. How would i go about not presenting it to the server? Will this affect the data on the original part of the disk?
They are FC SAN attached. How would i go about not presenting it to the server? Will this affect the data on the original part of the disk?
Ok what SAN? And how did you increase it to 40GB? Did present a new LUN from the SAN?
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Are these SAS disks or SAN Attached? If San Attached you can then remove the 40GB by not presenting it to this server