If you are using Vi client and have virtual center running, right click on VM and go to edit settings and sellect the hard drive. You should be able to change the hard drive size if you are running ESX 3.5 and VC 2.5. You still have to change the partition size in the VM just like in a physical server. By adding this drive to another VM you can use diskpart.exe. You may have to restart the new VM for it to register correctly.
Original Message: ----------------- From: Craig Gauss [email protected] Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:47:32 -0500 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize? I tried that but it didnt seem to want to resize correctly. Wondering if maybe VCenter needs to be up to do the resizing or something. I would resize it to 40GB. Next time I looked at the properties it showed the original size again. Craig Gauss, Technical Supervisor/Security Officer Riverview Hospital Association Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572 ________________________________ From: Mike Semon [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 8:04 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize? Here is an easy way. I use diskpart. 1. Power off the VM. 2. Resize vmdk. 3. Add this vmdk to another machine and use diskpart. 4. Remove this disk from this VM(where you added it as second disk). 5. Power on the source VM and you are done! Mike ________________________________ From: Craig Gauss [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 9:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: VMware - Vcenter resize? The group that configured our VMware infrastructure created vcenter as a virtual machine. It was only sized at 20GB. We are continually running out of space. Anyone know what would be the easiest way to resize the VM? I have resized VMs in the past with no issues but am not sure how to do the VCenter server. Craig Gauss, Technical Supervisor/Security Officer Riverview Hospital Association Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ -------------------------------------------------------------------- myhosting.com - Premium Microsoft® Windows® and Linux web and application hosting - http://link.myhosting.com/myhosting ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
