Hi.
I'm seeing an annoying issue which apparantly I share with several other people.
I'm trying to increase the capacity of a local VMFS5 datastore as per: KB2002461 (http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2002461
My host (5.1) is booting from an USB pen drive, and i had a slightly less than 2Tb large LUN on a local SmartArray Controller.formatted with one large (almost) 2Tb VMFS5. I added a disk to my raidset and expandend the LUN on which my 2Tb VMFS5 is located. After that I used partedUtil (partedUtil -getUsableSectors) to get the new ending sector number to which I could expand my partition with the "partedUtil resize" command.
All of this presented no problem and I can now see my partition as a 2.73Tb extend both from the commandline as well as the VI Client.
My problem is I can't complete the last part of the proces which is growing the (almost) 2Tb VMFS5 to the now 2.73Tb space I have available in the partition.
I run the command "vmkfstools --growfs /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.600508b1001052395658363
vmkfstools -P /vmfs/volumes/HDD_R5
VMFS-5.54 file system spanning 1 partitions.
File system label (if any): HDD_R5
Mode: public
Capacity 2198754820096 (2096896 file blocks * 1048576), 624961781760 (596010 blocks) avail
UUID: 4f4382ca-f160bd50-5e77-b499baa49a66
Partitions spanned (on "lvm"):
naa.600508b100105239565836303752001b:1
Is Native Snapshot Capable: YES
Please help...