We have run out of space on one of our Lab Manager Datastores and I need to expand it this weekend. We can't move the data that is in there because they are Thin Provisioned templates w/ linked clones.
My understanding is that I can expand a LUN using Concatenation or Striping. I believe striping results in better performance but I want to make sure that the data on the LUN\datastore I want to expand will not be affected by this expansion. Below is the environment info.
Has anyone expanded a LUN using the Striping method on a LUN presented to VMware Lab Manager? If so are there any other steps after expanding besides Recanning the datastore? IS there any risk to the data?
Clarion CX4-240
Lab Manager 4.0.2
VSphere 4.1 Update 1
ESX 4.0 Update 1
Thanks for any feedback or advice!