formatting and adding scsi drive

[popasmuerf]

I have an IBM eServer 346 Xseries that is running vmware esx 2.5.2. I am running out of space to use on /vmfs. The machine has another drive in it that to my knowledge was not formatted during the initial install. I want to format it and possibly span /vmfs accross it so that I can add more virtual drives to my windows virtual machines that I have as guests on the machines.

I got as understanding that I should use vmkfstools -C to create the files system. Since using the mount command and fdisk -l it appears that that everything currently falls under /dev/sda and that the device that I wish to formate is /dev/sdb. The current vmfs volume is vmhba1:0:0:5. How would I go about using vmkfstools to correctly accomplish this task? How would I name volume I want to create on unformatted disk?

 

[comtec17]

You cannot span the drive as RAID-0. You will have to format the drive as VMFS, and create the filesystem for mount.

 

[popasmuerf]

I disabled RAID for array. I assume that I will have to format using vmkfstools and then mount via /etc/fstab ?

 

[popasmuerf]

By the way, do you know of a way to dynamically resize an already established virtual disk ?

 

[Chacalinc]

RTFM:

http://www.vmware.com/support/esx25/doc/admin/esx25admin_vmvkfstools.html#1013079

see under: "Extends an existing logical VMFS-2 volume by spanning multiple partitions"

Chacal, Inc.