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Excellent thanks.<br />
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I've increased the volume size. &nbsp;How do I get the ESX server to detect it's grown?
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Excellent thanks.


I've increased the volume size.  How do I get the ESX server to detect it's grown?

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Worked a treat. &nbsp;Thanks
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Hi All,<br />
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We have a Dell Equal Logic, which has 2.61TB capacity.<br />
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I created a 2TB volume and presented it to two ESX servers.<br />
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This has been working well, however we are running low on space on the 2TB volume.<br />
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I'd like to increase the volume size to 2.5TB, here<br />
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<a href="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2013/11_w45/686734/SAN-space.PNG" target="_blank" title="SAN Space (187 KB)"><img alt="SAN Space" class="file-block lazyload" style="max-width: 705px;" data-src="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2013/11_w45/686734/SAN-space.PNG" /></a><br />
What affect will this have on the VM's running on it?<br />
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many thanks
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Hi All,

We have a Dell Equal Logic, which has 2.61TB capacity.

I created a 2TB volume and presented it to two ESX servers.

This has been working well, however we are running low on space on the 2TB volume.

I'd like to increase the volume size to 2.5TB, here



What affect will this have on the VM's running on it?

many thanks

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