How to Expand a Datastore in vSphere 5.

Symptoms: When you try to expand a VMFS volume by clicking increase option, there are no
available devices to select.

Once the lun has been created from the SAN side, perform the following:
To increase the capacity of a VMFS datastore:
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In vCenter Server, select the Datastores view.

Select the datastore you want to grow and identify the host that has more virtual machines running on it.
Open another vSphere client that connects directly to the ESX/ESXi host.
Go to Configuration > Storage adapters and perform a rescan.
Go to Configuration > Storage, click the datastore that you want to grow, and click Properties.
Ensure that the new size of the device is listed in the Extent Device list. If the increased size does not
reflect, review the changes on the storage array and rescan again.
Click Increase.
Select a device from the list of storage devices for which the Expandable = Yes and click Next.
Set the capacity for the extent. The default capacity for the extent is the entire free space on the storage
device.
Note: VMware recommends you to use the default setting.

10. Click Next.

11. In vCenter Server, right-click the cluster that sees the expanded datastore, and click Rescan for
Datastores.
12. If there are other hosts that see the expanded datastore, perform a rescan on these hosts also.
Note: If you do not see the datastore after step 6 and/or 7, try to perform the same steps by connecting to the stand
alone ESXi host directly.