I posted this before but some gremlin devoured the post, no idea what happened!
There are two datastores I am trying to expand with the following Extents, they are both on a HPE MSA 2060FC:
naa.600c0ff00066518855fe4f6301000000, partition 1
naa.600c0ff000666207a7fe4f6301000000, partition 1
When I try do the expansion through the GUI it shows the free space and lets me expand the partition in the GUI but then fails with the error below:
Expand Vmfs Datastore
Key
haTask-ha-host-vim.host.DatastoreSystem.expandVmfsDatastore-1676674412
Description
Expand the capacity of a VMFS datastore extent
State
Failed - Cannot change the host configuration.
Errors
Failed to update disk partitions for /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.600c0ff000666207a7fe4f6301000000.
This issue seems to be caused by the datastore you are trying to expand being the location ESX is installed to. I tried following the steps in the VMWare KB (https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2002461) but found that the partition listed as the bootbank isn't either of the extents I'm trying to expand so I'm a bit confused and wondering if there is something else wrong.
ls -ltrh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 Oct 18 20:25 bootbank -> /vmfs/volumes/c8ad2a21-3a40e86c-21bd-799fe63ee25c
vmkfstools -Ph -v10 bootbank
Could not retrieve max file size: Inappropriate ioctl for device
vfat-0.04 (Raw Major Version: 0) file system spanning 1 partitions.
File system label (if any): BOOTBANK1
Mode: private
Capacity 4 GB, 3.7 GB available, file block size 64 KB, max supported file size 0 bytes
Disk Block Size: 512/0/0
UUID: c8ad2a21-3a40e86c-21bd-799fe63ee25c
Logical device: t10.NVMe____HPE_NS204i2Dp_Gen102B_Boot_Controller_____010000063A435000:5
Partitions spanned (on "disks"):
t10.NVMe____HPE_NS204i2Dp_Gen102B_Boot_Controller_____010000063A435000:5
Is Native Snapshot Capable: NO
OBJLIB-LIB: ObjLib cleanup done.
WORKER: asyncOps=0 maxActiveOps=0 maxPending=0 maxCompleted=0
Below is the output from the commands that were requested in the previous post before it vanished into the ether.
ls -lisa /vmfs/devices/disks/
total 17228468210
5 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 512 Mar 14 17:18 .
1 0 drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 512 Mar 14 17:18 ..
208 5820612608 -rw------- 1 root root 5960307310592 Mar 14 17:18 naa.600c0ff00066518855fe4f6301000000
211 2324838400 -rw------- 1 root root 2380634522112 Mar 14 17:18 naa.600c0ff00066518855fe4f6301000000:1
218 5820612608 -rw------- 1 root root 5960307310592 Mar 14 17:18 naa.600c0ff000666207a7fe4f6301000000
216 2324838400 -rw------- 1 root root 2380634522112 Mar 14 17:18 naa.600c0ff000666207a7fe4f6301000000:1
188 468785664 -rw------- 1 root root 480036519936 Mar 14 17:18 t10.NVMe____HPE_NS204i2Dp_Gen102B_Boot_Controller_____010000063A435000
173 102400 -rw------- 1 root root 104857600 Mar 14 17:18 t10.NVMe____HPE_NS204i2Dp_Gen102B_Boot_Controller_____010000063A435000:1
176 4193280 -rw------- 1 root root 4293918720 Mar 14 17:18 t10.NVMe____HPE_NS204i2Dp_Gen102B_Boot_Controller_____010000063A435000:5
179 4193280 -rw------- 1 root root 4293918720 Mar 14 17:18 t10.NVMe____HPE_NS204i2Dp_Gen102B_Boot_Controller_____010000063A435000:6
182 125724672 -rw------- 1 root root 128742064128 Mar 14 17:18 t10.NVMe____HPE_NS204i2Dp_Gen102B_Boot_Controller_____010000063A435000:7
185 334566895 -rw------- 1 root root 342596500992 Mar 14 17:18 t10.NVMe____HPE_NS204i2Dp_Gen102B_Boot_Controller_____010000063A435000:8
190 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 70 Mar 14 17:18 vml.0100000000303130305f303030365f334134335f3530303000485045204e53 -> t10.NVMe____HPE_NS204i2Dp_Gen102B_Boot_Controller_____010000063A435000
175 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 72 Mar 14 17:18 vml.0100000000303130305f303030365f334134335f3530303000485045204e53:1 -> t10.NVMe____HPE_NS204i2Dp_Gen102B_Boot_Controller_____010000063A435000:1
178 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 72 Mar 14 17:18 vml.0100000000303130305f303030365f334134335f3530303000485045204e53:5 -> t10.NVMe____HPE_NS204i2Dp_Gen102B_Boot_Controller_____010000063A435000:5
181 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 72 Mar 14 17:18 vml.0100000000303130305f303030365f334134335f3530303000485045204e53:6 -> t10.NVMe____HPE_NS204i2Dp_Gen102B_Boot_Controller_____010000063A435000:6
184 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 72 Mar 14 17:18 vml.0100000000303130305f303030365f334134335f3530303000485045204e53:7 -> t10.NVMe____HPE_NS204i2Dp_Gen102B_Boot_Controller_____010000063A435000:7
187 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 72 Mar 14 17:18 vml.0100000000303130305f303030365f334134335f3530303000485045204e53:8 -> t10.NVMe____HPE_NS204i2Dp_Gen102B_Boot_Controller_____010000063A435000:8
209 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 Mar 14 17:18 vml.0200010000600c0ff00066518855fe4f63010000004d5341203230 -> naa.600c0ff00066518855fe4f6301000000
212 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 38 Mar 14 17:18 vml.0200010000600c0ff00066518855fe4f63010000004d5341203230:1 -> naa.600c0ff00066518855fe4f6301000000:1
219 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 Mar 14 17:18 vml.0200020000600c0ff000666207a7fe4f63010000004d5341203230 -> naa.600c0ff000666207a7fe4f6301000000
217 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 38 Mar 14 17:18 vml.0200020000600c0ff000666207a7fe4f63010000004d5341203230:1 -> naa.600c0ff000666207a7fe4f6301000000:1
189 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 70 Mar 14 17:18 vml.055a496a8c23ad15fd1168399cc566bcaf55d9dcabf2c4fbe507c4e00abd6bb878 -> t10.NVMe____HPE_NS204i2Dp_Gen102B_Boot_Controller_____010000063A435000
174 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 72 Mar 14 17:18 vml.055a496a8c23ad15fd1168399cc566bcaf55d9dcabf2c4fbe507c4e00abd6bb878:1 -> t10.NVMe____HPE_NS204i2Dp_Gen102B_Boot_Controller_____010000063A435000:1
177 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 72 Mar 14 17:18 vml.055a496a8c23ad15fd1168399cc566bcaf55d9dcabf2c4fbe507c4e00abd6bb878:5 -> t10.NVMe____HPE_NS204i2Dp_Gen102B_Boot_Controller_____010000063A435000:5
180 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 72 Mar 14 17:18 vml.055a496a8c23ad15fd1168399cc566bcaf55d9dcabf2c4fbe507c4e00abd6bb878:6 -> t10.NVMe____HPE_NS204i2Dp_Gen102B_Boot_Controller_____010000063A435000:6
183 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 72 Mar 14 17:18 vml.055a496a8c23ad15fd1168399cc566bcaf55d9dcabf2c4fbe507c4e00abd6bb878:7 -> t10.NVMe____HPE_NS204i2Dp_Gen102B_Boot_Controller_____010000063A435000:7
186 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 72 Mar 14 17:18 vml.055a496a8c23ad15fd1168399cc566bcaf55d9dcabf2c4fbe507c4e00abd6bb878:8 -> t10.NVMe____HPE_NS204i2Dp_Gen102B_Boot_Controller_____010000063A435000:8
partedUtil getptbl "/vmfs/devices/disks/naa.600c0ff000666207a7fe4f6301000000"
gpt
724632 255 63 11641225216
1 2048 4649678848 AA31E02A400F11DB9590000C2911D1B8 vmfs 0
partedUtil getptbl "/vmfs/devices/disks/naa.600c0ff00066518855fe4f6301000000"
gpt
724632 255 63 11641225216
1 2048 4649678848 AA31E02A400F11DB9590000C2911D1B8 vmfs 0
partedUtil getUsableSectors "/vmfs/devices/disks/naa.600c0ff000666207a7fe4f6301000000"
34 11641225182
partedUtil getUsableSectors "/vmfs/devices/disks/naa.600c0ff00066518855fe4f6301000000"
34 11641225182