Comments on: Expanding a drive within a VMWare image

By: Asad Quraishi

Asad Quraishi — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:50:12 +0000

Hey thanks! I haven’t tried this let but from what I already know this looks like it will work!

By: jeffster

jeffster — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 20:50:59 +0000

Method 2 worked like a charm. Knoppix options were a bit different but I guess that’s due to updated versions but easy enough to figure out. Thanks for the info.

By: Anish Panthalani

Anish Panthalani — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:45:42 +0000

Sorry i have tried with Method 2

By: Anish Panthalani

Anish Panthalani — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:44:39 +0000

HIi,

i have tried with method 1, using
“c:\program files\VMWare\VMWare Workstation\vmware-vdiskmanager.exe” -x 50GB “Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition R2 SP2-cl1.vmdk” Using log file C:\Documents and Settings\AVarghese_Camsoft\Local Settings\Temp\vdiskmanager.log

but i am getting
Diskname or some other argument is missing.
VMware Virtual Disk Manager – build 118166.
pls help me solve this.

i have successfully resize with VMWare converter.

Regards,
Anish Panthalani

By: How to expand a drive in VMware ? « Programming Hints

How to expand a drive in VMware ? « Programming Hints — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:26:03 +0000

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By: ESX guy

ESX guy — Mon, 17 May 2010 19:21:31 +0000

Dell has a utility called ESX Part, wonderful tool. i can expand a disk in under a minute. increase the size of disk in vcenter, use ext part to expand! that simple

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 07 May 2010 21:29:46 +0000

hi i recently had some trouble doing this i finally was successful by doing the following method. it was alot faster then any of the other methods stated.

To expand a VMDK first power off the VM.
From CMD cd to VMWare Root directory and run vmware-vdiskmanager -x 12GB “c:\path\of\VMDK\Name.vmdk”
hit enter
you should see grow to 100%
then open a different xp or windows server vm.
add a disk and select the vmdk you just expanded.
now go to cmd
User input: diskpart
User input list volumes
find the volume you want to expand.
User input: select volumeX
User input: assign
user input: extend
This will extend the selected partition to the full size you grew earlier.
Shutdown host remove HDD
Now open the other host and power on vm ,
You will need to reboot the vm again.
You will then have expanded your Virtual HDD to 12GB.

By: Duggan Roberts

Duggan Roberts — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:36:25 +0000

No prob and should be SUSE Linux Enterprise server not Lenux but sure everyone figured that out just realized the spelling error.

By: Sean

Sean — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:22:53 +0000

Duggan, thanks for the comment and for dropping by.

By: Duggan Roberts

Duggan Roberts — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:15:50 +0000

Just to let people know who might be expanding a SUSE Lenux Enterprise server after you use gparted and reboot into SUSE you have to do a resize_reiserfs within the terminal. For example I increased my partition 50G so I here is what I had to type in:

resize_reiserfs -s 50G /dev/sda2

Hope this might help someone out there.

Duggan