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How to grow a virtual disk in a VMWare virtual machine |
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Saturday, 14 March 2009 01:10 |
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How to grow a virtual disk in a VMWare virtual machine
A VMDK file can be grown while no virtual machine is using it. Growing the VMDK only makes the virtual harddrive bigger - filesystem within the VMDK must still be grown with other methods. For instance on Windows, Diskpart Download Here and on Linux GParted Download Here
On ESX:
vmkfstools -X <newsize>Gb filename.vmdk. On ESX 3.5, you can also edit the VM settings and edit the harddrive when the VM is not running.
Note that on ESX the filename.vmdk file is just a file containing metainformation and "filename-flat.vmdk" is the actual data file. However, vmkfstools operations are used on the metafile
On VMware Server Workstation and VMware Fusion:
vmware-vdiskmanager -x <newsize>Gb filename.vmdk For instance, if growing an existing vmdk file named "server1.vmdk" and it is to be grown so it's new size is 20GB, the command would be:
On ESX:
vmkfstools -X 20GB server1.vmdk
On Server/Workstation/Fusion
vmware-vdiskmanager -x 20Gb server1.vmdk
On Fusion vmware-vdiskmanager is located by default at /Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/vmware-vdiskmanager
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Last Updated on Thursday, 08 October 2009 22:03 |
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