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I have a question in regards to ESXi 5.0 Update 1:<br />
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I originally installed ESXi 5.0 on a USB flash drive for our hosts, and then configured a datastore to be used for the scratch partitions of all the hosts. &nbsp;Now, I want to expand the datastore, but am concerned if the hosts lose access to the Scratch partitions if something goes wrong, and what would happen if all of sudden the datastore housing the Scratch partitions was unavailable to the hosts. &nbsp;PSOD?<br />
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Has anybody had this happen?<br />
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Is it safe to expand the VMFS partition with active guests using the datastore? &nbsp;I've migrated everything off but the scratch partitions, but am curious as to the answer.<br />
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Thanks,
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I have a question in regards to ESXi 5.0 Update 1:

I originally installed ESXi 5.0 on a USB flash drive for our hosts, and then configured a datastore to be used for the scratch partitions of all the hosts.  Now, I want to expand the datastore, but am concerned if the hosts lose access to the Scratch partitions if something goes wrong, and what would happen if all of sudden the datastore housing the Scratch partitions was unavailable to the hosts.  PSOD?

Has anybody had this happen?

Is it safe to expand the VMFS partition with active guests using the datastore?  I've migrated everything off but the scratch partitions, but am curious as to the answer.

Thanks,

Losing access to Scratch Partition vSphere 5

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.