Hello all,
First time poster here. A group of people at my job have their own VMWare environment that they setup a while back. It has 3 VMs up and running on it and they want to bring up a fourth one. Unfortunately the new machine they want to bring up is going to be almost 1TB in size, and they initially setup the VMFS datastore to 1MB, meaning that a machine can only be as big as 256GB.
From researching, it looks like there is absolutely no way to get around this except to redo the datastore. Is this correct? If it is, I was looking at a way to save the three current machines and reload them after it is refreshed. One way that I thought of was to go browse the datastore and copy all of the files over to my local machine for the VM (.nvram, .vmdk, .vmx etx...all files), wipeout and redo the ESXi host with the correct datastore setting, build the VM machines in vSphere and then replace the files with the copied ones. Will this work fine? I didn't see much information out there on this and I want to make sure I don't mess up the VMs. This environment consists of 1 ESXi host with all local storage (2TB).
Also, if anyone knows of a better way to accomplish this, please feel free to give your input. I would really appreciate it.
Thanks