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So do you want to create a 12TB + 14TB virtual disk e.g. a total disk size of 26TB ?<br />
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e.g. expand the current drive D to 26TB from 12TB ?<br />
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because for that purpose, it would have been recommend and better to expand the current datastore, by 14TB, not create a new datastore.
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Dell Equallogic volume size is limited to 15TB and hence datastore &nbsp;is 15TB.<br />
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P6210 is the model running out dated FW 7.1.1.<br />
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yes 26TB for drive D
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Okay, then this becomes a more tricky and is not recommended.<br />
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You would need to create a new virtual disk on the new datastore, and then using Disk Management in the OS, create/expand a dynamic disk, and add the new disk to the existing disk.<br />
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No beware, if any virtual disk failed or was unavailable, the entire OS disk would fail.
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part &nbsp;add the new disk to the existing disk. how would one do this? - might be trivial but i &nbsp;have not done this before.
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Hi Experts,<br />
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I have a VM (windows server 2012) with Virtual drive (D) of 12 TB and I've created new data store (14 TB) and would like to expand drive D and add that 14 TB to it.<br />
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please advise<br />
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Michael
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Hi Experts,

I have a VM (windows server 2012) with Virtual drive (D) of 12 TB and I've created new data store (14 TB) and would like to expand drive D and add that 14 TB to it.

please advise

Michael

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