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Can I grow an existing virtual disk (.vmdk file)? |
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A VMDK file can be grown while no virtual machine is using it. Growng the VMDK only makes the virtual harddrive bigger - filesystem within the VMDK must still be grown with other methods (for instance on Windows, diskpart). On ESX: Note that on ESX the filename.vmdk file is just a file containing metainformation and "filename-flat.vmdk" is the actual data file. However, vmkfstools operations are used on the metafile On VMware Server Workstation and VMware Fusion: For instance, if growing an existing vmdk file named "server1.vmdk" and it is to be grown so it's new size is 20GB, the command would be: On ESX: On Server/Workstation/Fusion On Fusion vmware-vdiskmanager is located by default at /Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/vmware-vdiskmanager |
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