What is one requirement when adding an extent to a VMFS datastore?
A.
A new unused NFS mount
B.
An RDM with sufficient space available
C.
An unused iSCSI or FCP LUN
D.
Free space on the LUN holding the VMFS datastore
What is one requirement when adding an extent to a VMFS datastore?
What is one requirement when adding an extent to a VMFS datastore?
should be D
Yep, D is correct
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Use free space to add new extent: Adds the free space on this disk as a new datastore extent
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the answer is B
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Answer Is C
Multiple Lun in logical VMFS
and not multliple partions in a Lun
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Answer is C.
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The Answer is C not D
D is the answer for growing an Extent, but the question is for adding an extent.
When adding an extent you should use a new LUN and one from the same storage device that the current VMFS datastore uses, for VMFS locks the entire LUN and not just a partition, and the same storage device should be used due to the fact that if the LUNs have different speeds, then it will most likely cause performance issues.
When growing an extent so that it fills up its capacity, only extent with free space after them can be expanded.
The current size limit for a VMFS extent is 2TB-512B. For large VMFS volumes, you must use spanning to concatenate multiple 2TB-512B extents. An extent is a partition on a storage device or LUN. As there is currently a limit of 32 extents in a VMFS volume, the size limit on any VMFS volume is 64TB. Spanning of multiple volumes (LUNs) is required to reach that upper limit and is needed for any VMFS volume that is greater than 2TB in size. For more information on the size limits, see the Configuration Maximums guide.
For large VMFS volumes, use one of these methods:
• Add a new extent. The spanned VMFS datastore can use any of all its extents at any time. It does not need to fill up a particular extent before using the next one.
• Grow an extent in an existing VMFS datastore so that it fills the available adjacent capacity. Only extents with free space immediately after them are expandable. This can only be done on a LUN with size limit 2TB-512B.