Virtual Volume updated, but not reflecting to ESXi / VMware

[JRomero1]

Hello, 

We have two virtual volumes of 100 GB (volume_index and volume_index.r) cloned in a remote copy group. Due to files on the disk growing in space, we stopped the remote copy group, modified the virtual volume to 150 GB and then started the remote copy group. Every operation was successfull in the 3PAR MMC side, but the Virtual machine is still not receiving the updates and the volume is still 100 GB. (Tried with diskpart and diskmgmt, rescanning the disks to check if it could be expanded, but the extra 50 GB are not appearing)

We also tried a storage scan in the ESXi hosts side but nothing, it seems that for some reason vmware isn't able to detect the volume change. 

Any clue for this? 

Thanks,
Regards.

[Cali]

Hi,

first, you have to Rescan the ESX (see Picture).

Then you go to the Datastore (in vCenter) and choose "Increase Datastore Capacity" to expand it.

Verify that your VMware is powered off and has no snapshots.

 Click the “VM”  and go to "Settings."

 Select the hard disk you want to expand.

 On the right side of the window, click “Utilities” and select “Expand” from the drop-down menu.

 In the pop-out mini window, you can resize the disk to a new size.

 Click "OK." This will set the new maximum size for the virtual disk.

Power on VM.

Now you should see the new "bigger" Disk inside the VM and be able to extend the Partition inside the OS.

Cali

[JRomero1]

Not sure why but the new expanded space appeared this morning after re-scanning the storage yesterday. 

Thank you!

[sbhat09]

Hello @JRomero1,

Great to know that the issue is resolved.!

Regards,
Srinivas Bhat

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