Hello You shouldn't need to shut down VMs or anything to create a new virtual disk. You may need to refresh the storage section of the hypervisor to see the new virtual disk after it is created. You should then be able to create data stores with it. The whole process should have no impact on currently running VMs unless you choose to perform a full initialization on the new virtual disk. A full initialization is like writing zeroes to a drive. It will use resources on the storage controller and may impact performance across the controller. [URL] Thanks
Hi. I have a Dell R740 server. It had 6 SSD disks with an RAID-6 array. The server is up and running ESXi. I want to install 6 new SSD disks to create a new RAID-6 array and a new virtual disk on it without loosing all my VMs on server. I plan to stop all running VMs on the server and use this procedure to create new array: [URL] Do you think it is possible? Thanks in advance! Daniel
Installing fresh SSD disk and Creating new RAID on a running server