A quick article to see how to increase VMFS datastore with vSphere Web Client.

In a previous article, we had seen how to increase the capacity of a disk within a virtual machine. Today we will see how to increase the size of a datastore, in order to add VM or increase the size of these.

/!\ To expand the datastore you must be increase your LUN in your SAN before to increase in your vSphere environment /!\

Increase VMFS datastore with vSphere Web Client

• Select “Storage“

• Choose your datastore

• Go to :

1. Manage tab and “Settings“
2. Select “General“
3. Click to “Increase“

• Here you can see the LUN properties, click ‘Next’

• In this step, you can see the Maximum space available. You can select the size that you want increase via the slider

• In the last step, you can see a summary of wizard. Click finish to increase your datastore !

• In the tasks pane, you can see the task “Expand VMFS datastore, and another “Rescan VMFS” ! That’s all !

Thank’s for reading ! 🙂

Maxime

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