host os win7 (2x500gb disks) c:\=500gb & d:\=500gig ............400gig available on c:\
guest/helper OSs: w2k3 server
i have a w2k3 vm1 on D:\ (on win7 host) whos size i need to increase from 100gb to 320 gb.
steps i followed:
1. copied the same vm1 on D:\ of host win7 to C:\ of host win7 with same name vm1 to make helper vm as d:\vm1.
2. used vmware-vdiskmanager.exe -x 350gb "c:\vm1.vmdk" ...no snapshots to commit
3. grow% successfully completed with below msg:
c:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Workstation>vmware-vdiskmanager.exe -x 350G
B "C:\EPMOBIEE\EPMOBIEE.vmdk"
Grow: 28% done.Disk expansion completed successfully.
WARNING: If the virtual disk is partitioned, you must use a third-party
utility in the virtual machine to expand the size of the
partitions. For more information, see:
any advise will be immensely useful
tq.
Message was edited by: Vee321