Cannot change the size of the virtual hard disk

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• Is there a way to increase the size of the virtual hard disk? in the VM? ESXI 4.1

  HelloW to all.

  I created VM with the size of the hard drive of 80 GB and now I want to increase the size of the 80 GB to 150 GB drive does not add whit extra 70 GB partition but to increase the patitionn of 80 GB.

  Is there a way to increase the size of 150 GB of the virtual hard disk? in the VM? ESXI 4.1

  Thanks in advance.

  If the guest operating system is windows, then follow below process-

  Scenario-1 his drive is not the boot partition.

  1. click on the settings of the virtual machine

  2. Select the hard drive to increase and give the size you want (don't forget that you should have a free space available on the data store).

  3. go to disk to the virtual machine management, and then rescan disk (you will see the unused space)

  4. open the cmd/command prompt, then run diskpart by using the diskpart command

  5 then... the drive... After this list give the command "select disk 1" (1 is the disk you want to expand)

  6. After selecting the disk, type extend (extend order will extend the drive)

  7. exit diskpart.

  Scenario-2 If the drive is the boot partition.

  1. power of the virtual machine. (go on change settings of ==> click on the drive you want to extend ==> copy the path of the disc)

  2. go to any other test VM and add disk--> disk existing use ==> give the drive path that you want to extend ==> Assistant to finish.

  3. Select the hard drive to increase and give the size you want (don't forget that you should have a free space available on the data store).

  4. select disk of the virtual machine management, and then rescan disk (you will see the unused space)

  5. open / cmd command prompt, then run diskpart by using the diskpart command

  6. then... the drive... After this list give the command "select disk 1" (1 is the disk you want to expand)

  7. After selecting the disk, type extend (extend order will extend the drive)

  8 exit diskpart.

  9. go to change the setting of this test VM and select the hard drive... ==> click on remove virtual machine. (do not drive delete)

• The virtual hard disk size

  For worker Analyzer IO VM, it is recommended to create a larger second virtual hard disk that serves as a target IOmeter.

  
  

  Is the size of the virtual hard drive exactly the same workload working set size, which means that all data in the virtual disk is read from or written to storage during the race?

  Do you have other recommendations to decide what size the second virtual hard disk should be a VM worker?

  Thank you

  Rebecca

  Hi RS_1, it's useful, but I was looking for some additional tips for the user guide.

  I received responses from some of the developers of IO parser and also ran a few tests of my own.

  Iometer generates its I/O based on the number of blocks of target disc (i.e. the manually added virtual hard disk on the worker VM).  The size of the disk hard virtual will be be equivalent to e/s working set size.

  For a virtual hard drive that strikes only cache, a rule would be its size to 100 MB.

  For a virtual hard drive that hits the disk, the virtual hard disk could be sized anywhere from 10 GB to the top. The drive, / o most actually hits disc rather than cache.

  To do this, I created a 200 GB thin provisioned virtual hard disk for my e/s VM Analyzer worker. As I ran the Iometer workload, I could see the thin disc quickly increase from almost nothing to its size fully provisioned. This means that the new virtual hard disk sectors were continually being read and written by Iometer. Interestingly, it only took about 5 minutes to flesh out a whole 200 GB drive. Obviously, this speed would depend on the type of I/O profile used.

  I also tested a 20 GB disk Iometer vs virtual a virtual drive of 200 GB. Average latency, IOPS / s and flow were all better for 20 GB disk - because a greater proportion of e/s in this case was hit the cache, tilt the numbers positively.

  So, even at the drive hard virtual, sizes last 10 GB, size of the VHD will affect yet observed performance to Iometer.

• Read the last sector of the virtual hard disk

  Hello

  I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium VM inside VMWare Workstation image. I want to access the last sector of this Virtual Hard Drive. However, I do not within Windows 7 itself.

  Instead, I want to start this virtual system using a bootable Livecd. To this end, I can create an ISO using the Windows XP Installation CD and Bart PE Builder.

  Now my question is, how do I boot under VmWare Workstation Livecd Bootable using Bart PE created so that I can access the virtual hard disk.

  And also, once I started the new system, I want to read this last sector of the virtual hard disk. This is for testing purposes. I know, it could be done on a running system as well however, I want to be able to do this in VmWare Workstation.

  I searched the net for a solution. I came across the Disk Explorer utility, which is available here:

  www.Runtime.org/DiskExplorer.htm

  In my view, this will allow me to read the last sector and thus copy. It is however an expensive software. They have even a plugin developed to work with BartPE, which is available online here:

  http://www.Runtime.org/diskexplorer_for_ntfs.cab

  But we need to provide the license key in the .inf for this file to work.

  In any case, I know how to prepare the Windows Bootable Live CD using BartPE.

  Issues related to the:

  How to get started in using a windows live CD VMWare?

  How to access the virtual hard disk of the Windows 7 operating system?

  And finally, are there other alternatives that are easier to explore this disk that would allow me to read the last sector of this virtual hard disk and copy another medium?

  Thank you.

  I am able to use the keyboard in knoppix, but the mouse doesn't seem to work properly. I am able to click right on the desktop but not able to select any option. The behavior of the mice is completely wrong.

  Is it possible to fix it?

  You can try to temporarily adjust the Type of guest OS Linux or edit the .vmx to have these parameters/values or temporarily remove the USB controller.

  usb:0.deviceType = "mouse"
  usb:0.present = "FALSE"
  mouse.vusb.enable = "FALSE"
  

• Fusion is stopped because the virtual hard disk capacity is reached

  I run Windows XP Pro in a virtual machine with the German Fusion 3.1.1 on my MacBook 13 "with Mac OS X 10.6.2.

  When I try to start Windows the VM said: "VMware Fusion has the virtual machine is stopped, because the capacity of the hard drive (40 GB) is almost reached."

  But this Windows disk management in the first partition 'Win XP Pro' 15 GB to 30 GB are free. And on the second partition 'Install' 8 GB to 10 GB are free.

  I took the snapshot on the virtual machine and have managed hard disk cleanup. But it does not help. Fusion said I do free 1.2 MB capacity of the virtual hard disk. How can I do this, when the merger does not start?

  The opportunity to make more the virtual hard disk of 40 GB to 50 or 60 GB is blocked, I first have to delete the snapshot. But the snapshot is deleted.

  What can I make Fusion work again?

  czer27 wrote:

  When I try to start Windows the VM said: "VMware Fusion has the virtual machine is stopped, because the capacity of the hard drive (40 GB) is almost reached."

  I doubt that what you quoted is the message itself, so it would be more useful if you attach the .log files.  See information for VMware Fusion to help with that.  Howevere...

  I bet that the message is more like "VMware Fusion has suspended this virtual machine because the disk on which the virtual machine is stored is almost full. To continue, free at least MB of disk space. "and as such, you must do exactly what means the message and that is free space hard disk Macintosh not space inside the VHD.  After all, it's the Mackintosh HD stored on the Virtual Machine, isn't?

• Reduce the size of the virtual hard disk

  Are there any known issues with the reduction of the size of a virtual hard drive, I have a machine that has been installed with plenty of disk space, but space is not needed now, so I was going to reduce the size in the settings. Any questions?

  So I guess you want to reduce the nominal size of the virtual disk. The VMware Converter Standalone user to achieve this. You choose your comments as the source machine and create a new clone of him while reducing the size of the hard.

  Read the Page 51 of http://www.vmware.com/pdf/converter_standalone_guide401.pdf

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• How t change the startup hard disk?

  I upgraded my hard drive to a 500 GB to 2 TB Drive with a hard drive, copy of the program, thinking I could copy my files to the new drive.

  Help. I need to start on my old HDD 500 GB.

  -Donald

  You could add the second hard disk of 500 GB as a slave and copy your files on the hard disk of 2 TB if its startup. If its not bootable, try to load Windows on it and install the 500 GB drive as a slave and copy your files:
  How to add an Extra hard - wikiHow You will probably need to take ownership of files and folders on the drive of 500 GB, before copying them to:
  How to: Make a file/folder in Windows 7

• Cannot change the password on disk external HARD Gigastore

  All G´Day. Hope someone can help me and I don't have to format this drive...

  Had recently changed the password disk and curiosity entry "not enough space", as hitting the SPACEBAR once, as the new pw. Repeated, agreed and worked.

  However, now I can't access the drive more. Hit 'space' at the pw prompt will still have the blocked path.

  All old/new password to enter the space just tried. Nothing. The drive was my nearby since so nobody else would not change it in the meantime.

  Got some important data backed up and we hope that me to play around with this option will not end to erase everything.

  Each suggestion and help is very appreciated.
  Best regards
  Dennis

  Hello.

  Unfortunately, in my opinion it is not possible to remove or modify this password without the old password.

  Best regards

• Portege A100: Change the new HARD disk in slave mode?

  Hello, I have a portege a100 laptop, I want to buy a Dvd for my laptop burner and one in mind, even if I need to put my hard drive in slave mode first, that the dvd drive is set as master.
  My hard drive model is MK1032GAX, could someone tell me that it is possible to do so, before buying the dvd burner to 100%.

  Hello

  To my knowledge it s is not possible. The technology of the laptop is different, and you can't compare it with the desktop PC.
  As far as I know, the settings are fixed and you cannot change it. I think that the HARD disk controller is set master and you need to buy a compatible CD/DVD player.
  Player settings are different and the Toshiba service partner can give you more details about compatible CD/DVD players.

• Can not change the external hard disk drive letter.

  When I (R) click on the drive that I want to change the box that appears is all grayed out and you can just click on the help line. How can I change this so that I have all the choices available in the box? While I can click on change drive letter.

  When I (R) click on the drive that I want to change the box that appears is all grayed out and you can just click on the help line. How can I change this so that I have all the choices available in the box? While I can click on change drive letter.

  seems apparent question is already answered here... Follow the troubleshooting steps

  http://www.SevenForums.com/general-discussion/39481-cant-change-hard-drive-letter-needed-letter.html

• Satellite P100-307 - is - I can change the internal HARD disk 500 GB model?

  Hello

  I am a beginner and I would trade my internal 200 GB of HARD drive against a 500 GB Samsung HDD. I have a Satellite P100-307.
  Is this possible at all?

  Thanks in advance for your advice.

  Hello

  Theoretically, it should be possible to use 500 GB laptop HARD drive. He already has SATA interface and it would mean that there is no limit of capacity as on the old IDE interface.

  So, you can buy every 2.5 HARD drive SATA interface. It makes no difference if you buy A manufacturing or B. It of your choice!

  You can give us feedback operation ;)

• Increase the size of virtual hard disk to a virtual computer with snapshots

  Is it possible to increase the size of a virtual hard disk on a virtual machine that has snapshots on this subject?  I can use VMware converter to increase the size of the disk, but who commits snapshots during the conversion-

  Thank you

  As everybody said that it is not a good idea to increase the space for a VM with a snapshot.   The snapshot files are all related originally vmdk and when you change this vmdk he breaks the link.

  A particular reason that you cannot commit the snapshot before adding the space.

• Compact virtual hard disk and change the type of drive in static

  Hi all

  I want to change the type of my dynamic static vm disk and now I want to compact the virtual hard disk memory for this virtual machine but I want to it without affecting the control points of this virtual machine that I created earlier. I use the SCVMM 2012 administration console. Any reg suggestions it will be useful.

  Thank you

  You should post your question in the following forum for help and appropriate responses:

  http://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/w7itprovirt

• Defragment the virtual hard drive in vSphere 4 hypervisor

  Hey guys

  
  I noticed the hard drives on my VM were fragmented badly in the operating system and the virtual hard disk from VM.

  I defragmented the hard drives in the Server 2008 window, but I can't find how to defragment the virtual hard disk from VM. I thought that you could power off the virtual machine, change the settings of the virtual machine and choose defragment the hard drive of the virtual computer. However, I can't find this option.

  Is it possible to defragment a VM hard drive in vSphere Hypervisor 4? If yes how are you?

  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  Kind regards

  Aaron

  This link is the best... http://ITKnowledgeExchange.TechTarget.com/virtualization-Pro/defragmenting-virtual-machine-disk-files/

• Removing the virtual HARD drive / Datastore

  Hello

  Noob from VMware, which has inherited a system of perconfigured here-

  System = vCenter Server 4.0

  I have a datasotre that is down and which contains a couple of virtual hard disks associated with virtual windows servers. Are not readers of operating system on servers, but they are readers previously configured windows backup (backup of the Server 2008 and 2003).

  "Therefore, the servers went offline and when I try to start the server I get a message saying"virtual disk"drive hard n is not accessible on the host:

  Because virtual servers are powered off can I just remove the drive through the settings or Windows OS to complain that a disk is missing and if yes is there a way round this?

  The data store was a store NFS running on an old box of linux which is dead completely and can not be recovered, if I need too know how tell - associate this store from the servers.

  Thakns to help you

  Kipster

  Hello

  Hello from the Canada

  Yes, you can simply delete the virtual hard disk to the Virtual Machine through 'change settings '.

  Then turn on your VM again

  Once you have your data store to save and launched, you can add it back into your virtual machine.

  Concerning