Resizing a hard drive

[eakinsb]

Is there a way to resize the hard drive on a virtual machine already in use?

And/or can it be configured to only take up HDD space as needed?

Thanks

[COdlk]

I would recommend using VMware Converter to resize the drive.

david

[AntonVZhbankov · Accepted solution]

There is no just resize, there are expand and shrink,

You can expand VM hard drive (vmdk file) even without turning VM off, just make sure VM has no snapshots.

Shrinking disk is much more complicated process, and generally can be described as: create new disk, copy all data, delete old disk.

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[eakinsb]

Thank You...very helpful

Please take a look at this question please: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/218000