It's been a while, but when I did this I recall needing to first mount the drive to another running windows vm to move the pagefile off.
-matt -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jond Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 6:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: VMWare ESX -- Extending a VM's C: drive Has anyone here resided the C: drive on a server running inside VMWare ESX? Any advise or words of wisdom? Any methods better than the others? *Note, this isn't a mission critical server. The ESX host box is mission critical, but the server in question is not. That's the only reason I'm considering this. This is the method I'm considering: * Shutdown the virtual machine you want to resize * Log into the ESX Server console via Putty * Type "vmkfstools -X /vmfs/volumes///" ie. /vmfs/volumes/Storage1/my_vm.vmdk New disk size can be specified in kilo, mega or gigabytes and will be the total size of the new disk. So if you want to increase a virtual disk from 20GB to 24GB you would specify either 24000m or 24g * Shutdown the second helper virtual machine * Edit the settings of the second VM and add the hard disk from the first VM * Power on the second VM and load the Disk Management snap-in and verify that the disk from the first VM has un-allocated space on it * Select Start, Run and enter diskpart.exe * The command 'list volume' will show you all volumes. * Select your volume based on the results of the list volume command, ie. 'select volume 1' o Type the command 'extend' to extend the volume * Check the Disk Management snap-in again and the volume should be extended with a larger capacity * Shutdown the second VM and remove (not delete) the disk from it * Power on your first VM and the new space should be there and ready to use Advise? Thanks, Jon ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
