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Expanding a datastore – HP OneView for VMware vCenter User Manual

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Figure 30 Add Datastores – Summary window

9.

Click Finish to create the specified datastores.

You can view the progress of the task in the Recent Tasks pane at the bottom of the vSphere
Client window.

TIP:

No manual data refresh is necessary. When a provisioning operation is complete, the

Storage Module for vCenter data is refreshed automatically.

Expanding a datastore

You can expand the size of a datastore if it is located on a single disk.
1.

Start the vSphere Client.

2.

Use one of the following methods to open the Expand Datastore window:

Right-click a datastore and select HP Insight Software

→Expand Datastore.

Select a datastore in the inventory tree, and then click the HP Insight Software tab. Click
Storage Tools in the HP Management pane, and then click the Expand Datastore link.

Right-click a datastore in any Storage Module for vCenter table, and then select Expand
Datastore.

The Expand Datastore window opens. See

Figure 31 (page 57)

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