Hi!
I have a little problem, I cannot resize the disk size on some of my vm's.
I tried yesterday on two and that worked fine, tried to day (different vm) and it's not work out so well for me.
I first shutdown the vm, rightklick, change the size to 20Gb from 4Gb and press OK.
when I then rightklick on the vm after pushed OK the size is still 4Gb (I don't mean in windows, in VI client).
why? workaround?
thnx for help.
Does VM have any snapshots?
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VMware vExpert '2009
esx 3.5
sometimes vc does that so i log into the esx directly and then modify the vm, i have found that Partition Magic 8 works a treat.
Does VM have any snapshots?
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VMware vExpert '2009
As a workaround, you can log on the host and use the vmkfstools command. it works well.
root#vmkfstools -X 20G <vmdiskname.vmdk>
Ofcourse after doing this,you need to expand the disk from within the Guest OS. Disk part or disk manager for windows OSes.
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Anton is correct
Be sure that the vm does NOT have an active snapshot, before using this command on the console!
vCenter checks for this condition where the vmkfstools command does not!. Therefore i recommend to allways resize through vCenter/VIC
-Arnim van Lieshout
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yes there is 256GB free
yes, I took one before I tried to resize the disk (if it should be some crap)
You can not resize disk if you have snapshots.
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VMware vExpert '2009