Increase the size of the disk in the guest OS

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• Increase the size of the virtual disk.

  I just installed Windows virtual PC on Windows 7 64 bit and I try to install a program of 6 GB.  He said that there is not enough memory.
  The size of the virtual disk in less than 2 GB and I can't find any way to increase this size.  I tried to create a second virtual disk with more memory, but the same error comes back.  Is there a way I can increase the size of the primary virtual disk?

  Post here http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7install/threads or here http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7programs/threads instead.

• How can I increase the size of my disk 'C' for one of my other drives on the same hard drive

  I have 5 drives on my hard drive and I would like to increase the size of my C drive, the extra cost may be charged on my G drive, either by the way, my OS is xp.

  Thanks David

  You can't do this with the tools built into Windows XP, but you can use third-party disk partitioning tools. Although these tools are generally safe, it is always a good idea to make backups before using an any of them.

  Here are a few options in alphabetical order:

  Acronis Disk Director ($50)
  EASEUS Partition Manager free (free)
  O & O Partition Manager 3 ($50)

  Paragon Partition Manager

• How to increase the maximum size of the disk commissioning

  Hello

  I wanted to increase the size of the hard drive of one of our virtual machine but the maximum is 256 GB and I can't go any further. Is there a way to increase the maximum, so I can develop?

  We use ESXi 5.5 on a single physical server and use vSphare to manage. There are 300 GB of free space in the data store.

  can you please help

  

  Thank you

  Alexander

  Hi Caroline and welcome on VMware communities!

  It seems that your data store is in the old format VMFS3.  To create virtual disks greater than 256 GB in size, you will need to follow the instructions in upgrading warehouses VMFS3 to VMFS5.  (Further reading: VMware KB: block the size of a VMFS data store limitations.)

  See you soon,.

  --

  Darius

• Dell virtual disk are larger. You want to increase the size of the data store.

  Hello

  I started the implementation of a server ESXi 5.5 Update 1 this week. I didn't know Dell shipped the server with two virtual disks instead of one. I realized this _apres_ that I had already created the data store and setup a few virtual machines to the breast. I called Dell who sent specific instructions to increase the removal of the second (empty) virtual disk and add it to the main. In the end, I increased the single VD from 2 TB to 3 TB and I want to give the remaining space in my store of data.

  I tried to follow the article here that explains how to do this via the CLI.

  Well, he did not altogether. Fortunately, I was able to recover my datastore my setting start and end sectors to their original numbers. But I'm still left with this almost 1 TB of space that I can not attribute to the data store. After that I reread storage adapters in the client, the new Dell disk size resulted under measurement devices. Click on "increase...". ", generates the following error which led me on the way to the CLI method:

  Call "HostDatastoreSystem.QueryAvailableDisksForVmfs" to object "ha-datastoresystem" on ESXi '[myservername]' failed.

  I will paste my notes that I took everything by jobs. Things have exploded the rails when I put 4 partition size to the largest size. Any help, please?

  ---

  I use that as a guide:

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/search.do?cmd=displayKC & docType = kc & docTypeID = DT_KB_1_1 & externalId = 2002461

  
  

  1 use start hardware device management tools to increase the capacity of additional disk to the device. For more information, commit your hardware provider.

  This has been done. The new size of the virtual disk is 2791,88 GB (TB 2,79188)

  
  

  2. open a console to the ESXi host.

  Pretty simple.

  
  

  3. get the DeviceID for the data store to change.

  ~ # vmkfstools Pei "/ vmfs/volumes/datastore1 / '.

  System file VMFS-5, 60 extending on 1 partition.

  File system label (if applicable): datastore1

  Mode: public

  Capacity 1971926859776 (blocks of files 1880576 * 1048576), 1042688245760 (994385 blocks) prevail, max size of the 69201586814976 file

  UUID: 534e5121 - 4450-19dc-f8bc1238e18a 260d

  Partitions split (on 'lvm'):

  NAA.6c81f660ef0d23001ad809071096d28a:4

  
  

  A couple of things to note:

  a. the device for Datastore1 ID is: naa.6c81f660ef0d23001ad809071096d28a

  b. the number of Partition on the disk is: 4 ' [...]: 4 "»

  c. the prefix, "naa," means "Network address authority" the number immediately after is a single logical unit number.

  4. Enter the amount of disk space available on the data store.

  ~ # df h

  Size of filesystem used available use % mounted on

  VMFS-5 1. 8T 865.4 G 971,1 G 47% / vmfs/volumes/datastore1

  
  

  5 team of the device identifier, to identify the existing partitions on the device by using the partedUtil command.

  ~ # partedUtil get ' / vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6c81f660ef0d23001ad809071096d28a '.

  364456 255 63 5854986240

  1 63 80324 222 0

  2 80325 8466884 6 0

  3 8466885 13709764 252 0

  4 13711360 3865468766 251 0

  ~ #

  
  

  According to the table in article KB

  4 13711360 3865468766 251 0 - primary #4, type 251 = 0xFB = VMFS, 13711360-3865468766 areas

  | |        |          |   |

  | |        |          |   \---attribut

  | |        |          \---type

  | |        \---se finishing sector

  | \---a starting from sector

  partition \---Numero

  
  

  Also note how the number of section start the old end sector number is + 1.

  
  

  6 identify the partitions that need to be resized and the size of the space to use.

  We want to resize partition 4. I don't really understand the last part of this sentence, however. Read more.

  
  

  7 the number of sector end you want for the target data store VMFS partitions. To use all out at the end of the disc space, remove 1 of the size of the disk in the areas as described in step 5 in order to get the last usable area.

  ESXi 5.x has a command to do this:

  ~ # partedUtil getUsableSectors "/ vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6c81f660ef0d23001ad809071096d28a".

  1 5854986239

  This means that we want 4 Partition of "naa.6c81f660ef0d23001ad809071096d28a" to be:

  13711360 - 5854986239 (i.e. the end of the disc)

  
  

  8 resize the partition containing the target VMFS Datastore using the command partedUtil, specifying the original existing partition and the desired end sector:

  Using the above information, our command is:

  resize # partedUtil ' / vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6c81f660ef0d23001ad809071096d28a ' 4 13711360 5854986239

  
  

  9 step 8, the partedUtil command can report the warning:

  He did not. Displacement.

  
  

  10. the tables of partitions have been adjusted, but the VMFS data within the partition store is always the same size. Now there is an empty space in the partition where the VMFS data store can be grown.

  
  

  11 launch this v vmkfstools command to perform a refresh for VMFS volumes.

  Fact.

  
  

  12 reach the VMFS Datastore in the new space using the command - growfs vmkfstools, specifying the partition containing the VMFS Datastore target twice.

  vmkfstools - growfs ' / vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6c81f660ef0d23001ad809071096d28a:4 ' ' / vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6c81f660ef0d23001ad809071096d28a:4 '.

  
  

  It did not work. I got an error:

  / vmfs/volumes # vmkfstools - growfs ' / vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6c81f660ef0d23001ad809071096d28a:4 ' /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6c81f660ef0d «»

  23001ad809071096d28a:4 ".

  Cannot get device head way /dev/disks/naa.6c81f660ef0d23001ad809071096d28a:4 information

  
  

  Also the partition was very different to what I asked:

  ~ # partedUtil get ' / vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6c81f660ef0d23001ad809071096d28a '.

  364456 255 63 5854986240

  1 63 80324 222 0

  2 80325 8466884 6 0

  3 8466885 13709764 252 0

  4 13711360 1560018942 251 0

  
  

  I fixed it by running these commands:

  ~ # partedUtil resize ' / vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6c81f660ef0d23001ad809071096d28a ' 4 13711360 3865468766

  ~ # vmkfstools v

  ~ # partedUtil get ' / vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6c81f660ef0d23001ad809071096d28a '.

  364456 255 63 5854986240

  1 63 80324 222 0

  2 80325 8466884 6 0

  3 8466885 13709764 252 0

  4 13711360 3865468766 251 0

  Update:

  Since it was such a new machine, not in active production, we have safeguarded the VMs management off the ESXi host. Then flattened the virtual disk, recreated, and then created a store of data with the right size. (TPG this time, naturally.) We put the management of virtual machines on the data store. For Windows virtual machines, we have restored the using AppAssure. Everything is ok now.

  Need to add a new item to the list of punch: check what Dell has done the configuration of the virtual disks. :-)

• Cannot increase the size of the virtual disk

  I do this kind of maintenance all the time. Usually on Windows 2008 R2 servers where I can just go to the VM > settings > hard and develop it for my pleasure, and then add the space from the host 'to hot' without having to reload or use third-party tools 'boot' to develop (IE. GParted).

  We run vSphere 5.0. The virtual machine for this case is a Win2k8 R2 64 bit on a host 4.1. Our warehouses are NFS volumes on NetApp storage infrastructure. It is now the question:

  On the same data store, same OS (2 k 8 R2) I can change the settings on virtual machines to increase the disk space and the others, I can't. It is:

  • same data store (NFS - Yes, there is enough space to grow)
  • different hosts
  • same operating system
  • all of them are defined for Thin Provisioning
  • VMware tools are running and up to date

  For some reason some VMS allow me to develop their hard drive (size available xxx.xxGB) and others do not grow (available s/o): click the arrows to increase the hard drive is greyed out.

  Ideas?

  Thank you!

  Alex

  You can not. Unfortunately, it is not possible to resize a virtual disk with snapshots.

  André

• Increase the size of disk problems

  I just upgraded from Fusion 4 to 5 in preparation for the upgrade of Windows 7 to 8.  When I initially installed my VM several months ago, I waited to invite me on the amount of disk space, I wanted to allocate, but he never did the installation.  He created the virtual machine of 20 GB (boring), which would work if Windows ever wanted to do an update and that you ever wanted to save a file to the virtual computer.

  I used the Fusion to increase the size of the disc to 122 GB (I have over 600 GB available on my Mac) and it is distributed correctly and when I open windows the space was available on drive C.  However, when I discovered the virtual machine to the Virtual Machine in Fusion library it reads 20 GB.

  After more than an hour of reading of the VMWare knowledge base, I found an article that said that I had to increase the disk using Mac disk utility; However, this option is disabled/grayed out for me.  Another article proposed a ton of utility downloads to do this and overall I am lost.  It would be completely avoidable BS if the installation would have helped clarify the size of my disk on the installtion of the virtual machine.  Alas, it's wasn't the case.

  My question is does my windows hard disk shows 122 GB total space, but the library of virtual machines VMWare shows correct 20 GB and what can I expect if I start tyring upgrade to Windows 8 in terms of space?  Is there allocated 20 or 122 GB?

  Thank you.

  I just upgraded from Fusion 4 to 5 in preparation for the upgrade of Windows 7 to 8.  When I initially installed my VM several months ago, I waited to invite me on the amount of disk space, I wanted to allocate, but he never did the installation.  He created the virtual machine of 20 GB (boring), which would work if Windows ever wanted to do an update and that you ever wanted to save a file to the virtual computer.

  IIRC A Windows 7 Virtual PC to a 40 GB in VMware Fusion 4.x by default however any default size one can always modify virtual hardware parameters before installing an operating system.  Anyway to increase the size of the virtual hard disk is a process in two stages, the first of which is made in the settings of the Virtual Machine's hard drive.  The second part is made with a 3rd party utility or the OS itself, when it is necessary and it is applicable in the case of Windows 7.

  In Windows 7, just go to disk management and extend the Volume, he tries but a few seconds.

  Note: Before performing any disk level operations such as this should ensure that you have a clean backup * of the entire Virtual Machine.

  =========

  * It is a known fact that Time Machine is not 100% reliable backing up/restoring VMS in all circumstances/conditions.  Also back up Virtual Machines via Time Machine of disk/time intensive and wastes a lot of space for something that may be corrupted and worthless time to restore it.  At least I would exclude the Virtual Machines with virtual machines and Time Machine shutdown, not suspended and VMware Fusion closed and then manually copy the VMS to another location, preferably on a different physical hard drive.  So keep the user data stored in the virtual machine saved out of the Virtual Machine on a regular basis in order to always have a backup of the current user data.  If you need to restore a properly saved by VM is not as common at least you will have a virtual working Machine and data user to go forward with when you find out your Time Machine backup of the virtual machine fails.

• Cannot increase the size of thin provisioned disk

  Hello

  I am currently using vSphere, and I have a server that I am trying to increase the space allocated 40 GB to 50 GB. The problem is the option to increase the provisioned size is grayed out and I can't seem to understand this.

  I already checked to see if there is a snapshot, there are none.

  I also checked that the drive is a scsi and NOT an IDE drive.

  I'm fresh out of ideas and google searches return only guides on how to do what I've done, so any help is appreciated. Attached are the parameters of the hard disk, and the Snapshot Manager shears.

  Welcome to the community,

  According to the file name of the virtual disk in the first screenshot, the virtual computer runs on an active snapshot. The Snapshot Manager can not always show all snapshots, then take a look at the data store of the virtual machine to see if there are files... - 00000 x hard (snapshot).

  To get rid of the snapshots, create a new snapshot and run "Delete All" since the Snapshot Manager to commit all the snapshots on the basic disk.

  André

• VSphere ESXi4.0 - need help upgrade and increase the size of disk to the server

  Hello

  I have the free version of the VSphere ESXi4.0, I'm looking to do 2 things:

  (1) Upgarde to the last free version of Vsphere. Can you point me to the upgrade of the software and the path correct upgarde?

  (2) I have 2 servers running in the machine.  One is a Windows 2008 R2. I need to increase the size of disk for this server. Currently, it is 144 GB. I need to increase it up to 260 GB. How can I do this? I tried to simply increase the size by increasing the C of this server disk Edition by the 40 to 80 GB VSphere client and D ranging from 100 GB and 200 GB drive [I'm running out of space]. But the Vsphere shows again that the orginial 140 assignment or not the new 280 Gb.

  Help, please. Thanks in advance

  You must go into Windows on the virtual machine and use the disk management tools to extend the volume. It is a two stage process where you first set the VM, then the second step is to adjust the windows.

• Increase the size of the disk in question VM

  Hi all

  I would like to increase the size of a virtual disk in one of my virtual machines. The guest is Windows 2008 Standard. The disc, I want to express is currently 25GB. I would like to add an additional 50 GB. I increased the size of 75 GB using the vcenter server. When I go on the computer, virtual disk management, I was able to extend the drive and it shows as 75 GB, but under 'My computer', it shows that only 25 GB.

  There is plenty of space on the LUN. There is no photos of the virtual machine. The disk is thick. All properties show the disk as 75 GB.

  I don't really know where to go from here.

  Any suggestions?

  Thanks in advance.

  Dean

  Hello.

  I've seen this before.  I usually add another 1 GB for the VMDK and repeat the process of extension in Windows to fix.  Not sure why it goes well.

  Good luck!

• 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)

• 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.

• What are the steps to increase the size of Guest OS Windows Server 2003 disk?

  People,

  Hello. I use 3 Player VM and Guest OS Windows Server 2003. The host OS is Windows 7.

  I just increase the disk size of Virtual Machine from 80 GB to 150 GB successfully. The next thing to do is to repartition the disk size of Guest OS Windows Server 2003 in 150 GB.

  What are the specific steps to increase the size of Guest OS Windows Server 2003 disk?

  Thank you.

  Only, I tried start gparted-live - 0.7.0 - 4.ISO both gparted-live - 0.7.0 - 7.iso in VMware Player and had no problem in order to check the MD5SUM.

  Attach the file vmware.log so we can see what is happening.

• Cannot increase the size of the VM disk

  Hello

  I have VM, that has layout size of 20 GB - thick and it grayed out to to increase, see below

  Post edited by: vmroyale to remove the Word attachment

  >... I have now the increase in size as a separate partition...

  It should appear as a adjacent unused space on the disk that you want to resize.

  >... what I owe another utility to make for example a disk drive c right?

  Open disk management, right-click on the c: drive (assuming that it is the only player you have) and select "Extend Volume... ». Then follow the steps in the "Wizard of Volume stretch ' to increase the size of your c: partition.

  André

• How to increase the size of the disk partition VMware Studio.

  Hello

  I installed the VMWare Studio unit on ESX 4.0 host system. I've been running more disk space for builds, so I wanted to provide more space for the SCSI in ESX, Edit-settings of the Virtual Appliance. I increased the size to 256 GB SCSI disk.

  I then went to the guest VMWare Studio system, and the device/dev/sda5 displays always only 30 GB, and 12 GB is exhausted. How can I make the Guest OS from VMWare Studio unit see the increase in size?

  I tried to use "parted", but this fails because/dev/sda5 is mounted. "' I can't umount/dev/sda5 as/dev/sda5" is ongoing. " I am aware of the 1004047 of the Knowledge Base article, but it is of no use, because is not specifically for VMWare Studio unit.

  Thank you.

  If you have a lot of disk space on the ESX Server, yes creating and adding a new virtual disk (vmdk) to the VM Studio is the way to go. Mount the new drive for the Studio colleagues OS (Ubuntu), and the key is/opt/vmware/www/build simple installation on the new disk to create the new space drive for Studio use. Don't forget to back up your existing data in this directory first. See http://communities.vmware.com/thread/244715?tstart=0 for the similar explanation. Let us know how it goes.