John Von Essen on 28 Dec 2009 17:33:33 -0800


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Re: [PLUG] VMware ESXi question...


Huh?

With VMware ESXi 4.0 everything is done via the vCenter console GUI. There is no command line I am aware of.

On Dec 28, 2009, at 7:17 PM, Ron Kaye Jr wrote:

its been a while

grab a gparted iso
change boot order, boot to iso, expand disk
space should  be seen by OS

the old way ... used vmkfstools (command line)
Ron Kaye Jr
914-7294734

Dec 28, 2009 06:56:03 PM, plug@lists.phillylinux.org wrote:
Anyone familiar with expanding disks in ESXi 4.0?

I migrated a VM from Microsoft VM Server using VMware's free converter 
tool. The converter has an option to grow the disk (originally was 
20Gb, now I want 50Gb) - when I try to grow via the converter - the 
conversion always fails. The only way it works is to convert the VM as- 
is. I thought once the VM was live in ESXi I could go back and 
manually grow it to 50Gb, but the Hard Disk resource option for size 
is always greyed out.


When the VM is down, I do "edit settings". Memory and CPU I can 
change, but when I click Hard Disk, the size drop down is greyed out. 
Just says Disk Provisioning: Thick, Provisioned Size: 20Gb. Maybe 
there is an option I missed when doing the conversion.

Any ideas?

Thanks
John
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