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Select Partitioning Options in the VMware Host Client
Use the Select partitioning options page of the New datastore wizard to select how you would like to
partition the device.
Procedure
1 Click the Select partitioning scheme drop-down menu and select an option.
Option Description
Use Full Disk
It shows you all the free space that is available on the device.
Custom
Click the Free space bar and use the horizontal scroller to partition the
device.
2 Click Next.
Complete Datastore Creation Process in the VMware Host Client
In the Ready to complete page of the New datastore wizard, you can review your conguration selections
for the new datastore.
Procedure
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Review the conguration selections summary and click Finish.
Increasing VMFS Datastore Capacity
If your VMFS datastore requires more space, increase the datastore capacity. You can dynamically increase
the capacity by growing a datastore extent or by adding a new extent.
Use one of the following methods to increase a datastore capacity:
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Dynamically grow any expandable datastore extent, so that it lls the available adjacent capacity. The
extent is considered expandable when the underlying storage device has free space immediately after
the extent.
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Dynamically add a new extent. The datastore can span over up to 32 extents with the size of each extent
of more than 2TB, yet appear as a single volume. The spanned VMFS datastore can use any or all of its
extents at any time. It does not need to ll up a particular extent before using the next one.
N Datastores that only support hardware assisted locking, also called atomic test and set (ATS)
mechanism cannot span over non-ATS devices. For more information, see vSphere Storage.
Increase an Existing VMFS Datastore in the VMware Host Client
When you need to add virtual machines to a datastore, or when the virtual machines running on a datastore
require more space, you can dynamically increase the capacity of a VMFS datastore.
If a shared datastore has powered on virtual machines and becomes 100% full, you can increase the
datastore's capacity only from the host that the powered on virtual machines are registered on.
Procedure
1 Click Storage in the VMware Host Client inventory and click Datastores.
2 Click New datastore.
3 Click Increase the size of an existing VMFS datastore and click Next.
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