topic Re: P2000 Add disk to VMWare Server in MSA Storage

P2000 Add disk to VMWare Server

ThomasHansen — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 11:51:14 GMT

Hi.

I have a customer that has a P2000 G3 san connected to a HP DL380 G7 running ESXi 5.0. There are configured 3 vdisk with 4 volumes in total.

Now they need to add a new VM on the server but have run out of space.

Can i just add 2 new disks to the san, create a vdisk, create a volume and then map that to the controllers on the fly. And will VMWare be able to see it without a restart?

Re: P2000 Add disk to VMWare Server

Torsten. — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 15:46:39 GMT

Why not just add the new disks to an existing vdisk and create a new volume? Or maybe just extend an existing volume?

Re: P2000 Add disk to VMWare Server

ThomasHansen — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 07:17:44 GMT

Thank you for the answer.

If i extend it, and add another volume will this automatically show up in VMWare?

Re: P2000 Add disk to VMWare Server

Torsten. — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 07:35:19 GMT

You just need to present (map) it to the host.

Re: P2000 Add disk to VMWare Server

ThomasHansen — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 09:53:07 GMT

Thanks. I'll try it.