Resizing a VMWare Virtual Hard Disk

Marcus Walshe

I was asked by a colleague the other days how to expand a virtual machine hard disk, so, here it is.

You can increase the size of the VMware virtual disk that you have a VM running on using the command line tool vmware-vdiskmanager. This tool will allow you to, amongst other things, resize a virtual hard disk.

There are a couple of caveats before you usethis. The machine must be shutdown as the VMDK file must be locked to perform this action against it, and, the virtual ma [...]

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Resizing a VMWare Virtual Hard Disk