how to increase the size of the hard disk in the link clone without minimal effect.

[virgo731]

persistent D is set to 10GB and want to increase to 20Gb.

[Shreyskar · Accepted solution]

Hi virgo731

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>.

Please note only the newly created persistent disk will have the increased size.  At this time if you want to increase persistent disk that have already been deployed you will have to do it through vSphere and then increase in Windows.  

The final step you must complete is to edit the pool settings and increase the persistent disk limit for the entire pool, that way newly deployed persistent disk will always have increased size.

Mark the reply as helpful/correct if it helps you.

[virgo731]

The pool already been deployed and it's base from the recent snapshot. If I'm going to increase the  VM's local hard drive so I have to edit the master image but I can't do that since

it's has a snapshot. If I delete the snapshot then the changes or update will be lost and this changes made by other IT staff and I can't recall what changes he made. Is it possible to

merge the snapshot to the master image so the master image will be current and delete the snapshot then I increase the Drive C then recompose again the pool. any thought? much appreciated.

[Shreyskar]

You can clone the master image to a new image which will consolidate all the snapshots. Then you can increase the OS disk size on new VM and create desktop pools using that.

[virgo731]

Thanks for the quick response.

I have another query:

I had clients connecting to remotely thru VDI. I created a VPN pool so they can connect from the pool and then from there they can remotely

access their work desktop. The problem is, after I upgraded the pool to Windows 10 every time the clients it will always set up as new windows users

and slows down the login process. Is there way to remove this extra layer of connecting remotely thru like assigning a dedicated desktop pool to each client so every time

the users access thru VPN they access directly to their office desktop. any thoughts on this?