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The backup Apps is taking the snapshot. If I delete then I will loose the backup.
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Talk with your backup vendor. A snapshot is not a backup. The snapshot should only exist while the backup is being made. Once the backup is finished, the snapshot should be automatically deleted.
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Hello,<br />
We have thick lun mounted as vsphere data store. I took the snapshot of a LUN . I am unable to expand the LUN because of the snapshot.<br />
What is the best way &nbsp;to expand the LUN?
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Hello,
We have thick lun mounted as vsphere data store. I took the snapshot of a LUN . I am unable to expand the LUN because of the snapshot.
What is the best way  to expand the LUN?

Expand VNX thick LUN

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.