Swapping hard drives for change/increase the size of the data store

Hello:

I have an ESXi host 4.1 with 2x146GB RAID1 array (datastore1), 4x300GB RAID5 array (datastore2).  I need more space so I intend to replace 2x146GB by 2x2TB.  I'll first move virtual machines from datastore1 to datastore2, then stop the machine, Exchange records and build the new table.

  • What I need to remove ESXi cfg datastore1. before you physically remove the drives, or will start ESXi gracefully and allow me to remove the data store?
  • I'll be able to add the new data store (2x2TB) to ESXi, ago, i.e. ESXi should see table once initialized on the machine?
  • Existing data warehouses have 1 MB block size max vmdk is 256GB.  I want the new data store to have the block size of 8MB so I can have more VMDK.  I think I can fix the block size of data store when it was created, are, i.e. the ESXi installation can have warehouses of data with different block sizes, are?


Thanks a lot for the ideas you have!


Bob

1.) why not just delete the GUI data store before you remove the discs?

2.) If your controller has the disks properly there should be no problem with their detection.

3.) Yes, each data store may have a different block size. The block size can be selected when creating the data store on disk/LUN.

André

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