Impossible to expand the D: drive on the virtual machine

I tried to increase disk vmdk file to another 20Gb.When D: I went to change the setting, the option to increase the size of the disk is grayed out.

My ESX Server that is having the VM is not added to the virtual Center Server.

In Edit framework I have seen

Vitual machine version: 4

type of thick disk configuration

size of 25GB available

Maximum S/o

Please let me know if there is an option to increase the size of vmdk file.

have you created a snapshot of the virtual machine? If there is a snapshot, you are not able to extend the disks of the virtual machine.

Are you unable to extend all or only the road d disks? I have had this a few times and the only way to extend the drive was by turn off the virtual machine. Never understood why it was.

With sincere friendships.

Ruud

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