Increase persistent disk space

[esnmb]

Is there any way to increase the Link Clone dedicated disk space without blowing away the view desktop?  I have increased the persistent disk space in the View Admin and all new desktops have the increased space.

I just don't want to delete all desktops to get the increase.

Thanks.

[jake200]

I know in View 3.1, even though you increase the disk space in the View console and recompose the systems it wouldn't work. What I ended having to do is delete the desktop pool and then start again. In View 4.5 not sure if that is the same situation, but I don't know of a way to increase persistent disk without doing a recompose.

[mittim12 · Accepted solution]

If they didn't update on a recompose you could always expand them in the same manner you do vSphere disk.  Simply increase the disk through vCenter and then use diskpart or something else to expand it. 

[esnmb]

Ah good idea.  I'll try that.

[kgsivan]

Disk size cannot be changed through View Administrator for the VMs which is already provisioned.

The only way is manually extend by using 3rd party tools (like partition magic or something like that)

I beleive for windows 7, there is an inbuilt option to extend the volume but not for the system disk. You can extend persistetn disk

[willrodbard]

Hi esnmb

As a previous post said, you  can just increase the disk like you do for other vSphere VMs, i.e. <edit settings> increase size of disk, then, inside VM run diskpart, select the 2nd volume, type <extend>

The final step you must complete is to edit the pool settings and increase the persistent disk limit for the entire pool, that way when you recompose or refresh you wont get errors.

Hope this helps

Will

[esnmb]

Thanks all!  I treated the currently deployed desktops like any other VM and increased the persistent disk.  I have also adjusted the Pool settings and that is working perfectly.

Thanks for all the suggestions.  Very helpful as usual!

[IP2008]

Although that method may work, does anyone know if a recompose increases the disk size for the whole pool under 4.5, 4.6 ... ?

Thanks in advance