Increased size of drives connected to VMware 2012r2 server, now no drives!

So you expanded both drives from vsphere and now OS does not show them? How about if you go to Computer Management->Disk Management (you'll need to expand them there as well anyway)?

I powered down the server, increased the D and E drives by 10GB each, then powered back up, now can't connect to the drive from the server, but in the vSphere client the drives are connected.
What did I do wrong?
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After playing with this for the last few days, I found a solution. Under the "Disks" tab in Airport Utility, the "Secure Shared Disks" drop down needs to be set to "With device password". Mine was set to "With acounts", which even after correct authentication, none of the files would appear.
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Failed to connect to VMware web service: Invalid keystore

Hi,
We have a CPO 2.3.1 that refuses to connect to vCenter (see log extract at the end of the post).
We recently changed our vCenter server (part of an update to 5.1).
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remove and add all platform elements from the portal using SE services
re import automation packs (the 4 from the Starter Edition v2.3.1.38)
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Would you have a clue on how to correct that?
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Regards,
Pierre
||235|2012/10/02 15:46:21.667|6072||||WCF: <TraceRecord xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2004/10/E2ETraceEvent/TraceRecord" Severity="Error"><TraceIdentifier>http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/System.ServiceModel.Diagnostics.TraceHandledException.aspx</TraceIdentifier><Description>Handling an exception.</Description><AppDomain>Tidal.Automation.Server.exe</AppDomain><Exception><ExceptionType>Tidal.Scheduler.Common.Communications.CommunicationException, Tidal.Scheduler.Common, Version=2.3.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=fba593b23cf207cd</ExceptionType><Message>The attempt to connect to (VMware vCenter Server (603)@VMware vCenter Server (603)) has failed due to following error: Failed to connect to VMware web service: Invalid keystore.</Message><StackTrace>   at Tidal.Automation.Server.JavaAdapterBase.PerformServerAssistedOperation(ServerAssistedOperation operation, TargetConfiguration target, RuntimeUserConfiguration runtimeUser)
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[email protected]

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