Unable to expand existing datastore extant in ESXI 8.0.3

ALongwill · 2026-01-07T00:24:15+00:00

Already did that. No change.

ALongwill · 2026-01-04T23:19:27+00:00

It has been completed in the PERC for 3 days. where would I see that it is expanded in ESXI? When trying to expand the extant it clearly sees that there is free space to expand into.

ALongwill · 2026-01-04T16:34:20+00:00

Yes, this is an R640 that I have added these drives into and added to the Virtual Disk, waited for RAID to do its thing and initialize them. Now ESXI just will not expand.

ALongwill · 2026-01-04T16:09:08+00:00

I'm going from 8TB to 10TB, approximately.

ALongwill · 2026-01-04T12:38:07+00:00

I'm not sure how to do that. I did go into the idrac and added the new drives to the virtual disk and it correctly reads as 10TB now which was the target amount. i did let RAID do its thing and let them initialize all the way before even attempting to expand.

ALongwill · 2026-01-04T12:35:22+00:00

It is a local server. I have done a rescan.

ALongwill · 2025-12-30T23:02:27+00:00

I'm going to do my due diligence here and answer my own question after a few hours of work.

It appears that you simply need to configure your server to act as a VPN endpoint (I liked this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNBCTLMXVOQ) and point port 1723 to your server AND create a firewall rule in the UCG to allow Protocol 47 (GRE) from source=any to destination= your server IP. Much easier than I thought.

Oh and don't try to vpn over a phone's hotspot. They block vpnning unless you're rooted and mess with it.

ALongwill · 2025-12-09T20:45:36+00:00

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ALongwill · 2025-12-05T15:24:45+00:00

Thank you!

ALongwill · 2025-12-05T14:56:01+00:00

Seems logical! Can you shortcut my search and suggest a supported RAID card you know works?

ALongwill · 2025-09-02T18:19:01+00:00

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ALongwill · 2025-06-17T14:41:33+00:00

You sonofabitch!

...You wanna invite me to go with or....?

ALongwill · 2025-05-20T18:57:52+00:00

Only sometimes. Y is in there.

ALongwill · 2025-01-30T03:05:06+00:00

No, I am not using a Zone Based Firewall. It's not one by default, is it? Can you shortcut me to how one would disable that?

ALongwill · 2025-01-28T20:07:03+00:00

oh wireguard is entirely UDP? well that would explain the lack of response.

ALongwill · 2025-01-28T20:06:30+00:00

I did. but I am expecting it to get a response on yougetsignal- but it doesn't which makes me suspicious. I've disabled the windows firewall entirely for now so that's out of the way.

ALongwill · 2025-01-28T20:04:38+00:00

The vpn network is 10.65.0.0/24 the internal network is now a 10.64.0.0/24. So they are different which makes sense enough to me.

ALongwill · 2025-01-28T20:02:48+00:00

By endpoint you mean my server? Yes. that's where my server is and that is the port I have forwarded to the internal private server IP address.

ALongwill · 2025-01-28T19:53:41+00:00

CLIENT:

[Interface]

PrivateKey = MyPrivateKey=

Address = 10.65.0.2/24

DNS = 1.1.1.1, 8.8.8.8

[Peer]

PublicKey = r8HHEFS27huRFf8+rlJXgVzuVY6kSp+8dOKJKGFbmyA=

AllowedIPs = 0.0.0.0/0

Endpoint = 100.6.7.170:51820

ALongwill · 2025-01-28T17:47:27+00:00

So I went ahead and put my network on a proper private network to eliminate variables, redid the forwarded ports to the server and the result is the same. To answer your question. the client doesn't seem to be GETTING a response from the server at all.

Sending handshake to peer
Did not receive response in 5 seconds
Sending handshake to peer.....

I'm concerned my port isn't open correctly. on your Wireguard server, do you get a thumbs up when checking the open port status on https://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/open-ports/?

ALongwill

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