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here are accessible from the hosts and/or clusters you selected in the previous step. Place
a check in the check box next to each datastore you want added to the datastore cluster.
Click Next.
11.
Review the settings in the i nal screen of the New Datastore Cluster Wizard.
If any of the settings are incorrect or if you need to make any changes, use the hyperlinks
on the left to go back. Otherwise, click Finish.
The newly created datastore cluster will appear in the Storage view. The Summary tab of the
datastore cluster, shown in Figure 12.29, will display the aggregate statistics about the datastores
in the datastore cluster.
Figure 12.29
h e Summary tab of
a datastore cluster
provides overall
information about
total capacity, total
used space, total
free space, and larg-
est free space.
Once you've created a datastore cluster, you can add capacity to it by adding more datastores,
much in the same way you would add capacity to a vSphere DRS cluster by adding new ESXi hosts.
To add a datastore to a datastore cluster, just right-click an existing datastore cluster and
select Move Datastores Into from the pop-up context menu. This opens the Move Datastores Into
Cluster dialog box, where you can select additional datastores to add to the datastore cluster.
Figure 12.30 shows the Move Datastores Into Datastore Cluster dialog box, where you can see
that some datastores cannot be added because all necessary ESXi hosts aren't connected. This
ensures that you don't inadvertently add a datastore to a datastore cluster and then i nd that an
SRDS migration renders that VMDK unreachable by one or more ESXi hosts.
