Resizing your VMFS the right way, exploring the next version of ESX/vCenter

Un petit aperçu de la future version d'ESX/vCenter...

Aujourd'hui: comment agrandir un VMFS sans Extent!

I’ve been playing around with my vSphere/Next gen ESX lab. I was replaying the VMworld lab and one of the assignments was to  resize a VMFS volume. Yes that’s correct, resize not extent. Extents have been discussed by many and the general consensus is avoid them if/when possible. But when running out of diskspace you don’t always have the option to avoid them. Some can’t afford the downtime that comes with a “cold migration”, and most aren’t willing to take the risk of using storage vmotion when running out of diskspace. (Snapshot is placed on source VMFS volume) This has all been solved in the next version of ESX/vCenter. You can resize your VMFS volume without resorting to extents, and you can do this with the vCenter client.

http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2009/03/26/resizing-your-vmfs-the-right-way-exploring-the-next-version-of-esxvcenter/