During a scripted ESXi 8 installation you create a VMFS-6 datastore on a new Fibre Channel LUN, and you plan to expand it later by adding more LUN extents. To stay within VMware-supported limits, which statement about a spanned VMFS-6 datastore is accurate?
VMFS-6 volumes cannot be expanded with extents; a new datastore must be created instead.
A VMFS-6 datastore can contain a maximum of 32 extents and its total capacity is limited to 64 TB.
A VMFS-6 datastore is limited to 16 extents and an aggregate size of 32 TB.
You may add an unlimited number of extents provided each one is smaller than 8 TB.
VMFS-6 supports spanned (multi-extent) datastores with fixed limits. A single VMFS-6 datastore can span up to 32 extents (LUNs), and the total combined size cannot exceed 64 TB. Therefore, the correct statement is that a datastore can have a maximum of 32 extents and a total capacity of 64 TB. The other options present incorrect limits (such as 16 extents/32 TB) or wrongly claim that extents are unlimited or not allowed for expansion.
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