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Monday, August 13, 2012

Adding / increasing disk space of a vmdk, to power off or leave on the VM?

Posted on 2:52 PM by Unknown

Its best to have no snapshots and power off the vm according to vmware

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1004047

    But is it possible to increase disk space without powering off the vm?


    Example: Disk is 35gb and the vm is active




    Adding 15 more GB to make a total of 50GB




    Rescanning disks and the extra space shows up









    Yes it is possible to increase a VM's disk space while powered on.


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