Forgive me asking, you are shutting the machine down first? Apologies if you are
2009/3/23 Craig Gauss <[email protected]> > Guest still only shows 20GB > > > Craig Gauss, Technical Supervisor/Security Officer > Riverview Hospital Association > Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572 > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Damien Solodow [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 10:29 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize? > > What does the guest say though? > Sometimes I've made changes in the viclient and have to restart it > before they show up correctly. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Craig Gauss [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 11:28 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize? > > When I go back in and edit the settings of the VM again it shows the > original 20GB size. > > > Craig Gauss, Technical Supervisor/Security Officer Riverview Hospital > Association > Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572 > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 10:23 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize? > > 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(r) Windows(r) 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/> ~ > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
