Expand disk in vSphere SRM protected environment

[kotiadinesh]

Hello everyone,

I am new to this community and SRM. I want to expand 1 disk on 4 different virtual machines all are protected by SRM. Out 4 disks 3 are thick lazy zero and 1 is thick eager zero disk. I have below questions:

• May I need to disable or remove the replication? Is it for all the disks in a VM or for a specific disk I am going to expand.
• Do I need to rename all disk's folder at destination or renaming specific disk's (which I am going to expand) folder will work.
• Please let me know anything that I have missed or best practices to be follow.

[ThompsG]

Hi kotiadinesh and welcome to the community

The answer as many do is: "it depends"

Perhaps if you could tell us a little about your environment. Thinks like: are you using array based replication or vSphere replication with SRM.

Thanks in advance.

[kotiadinesh]

Hi ThompspG thanks for quick reply, we have SRM with vSphere replication.

[vbrowncoat]

Follow these directions:

VMware KB: Resizing the virtual machine disk files (.vmdk files) during replication that are protect...

VMware KB: Resizing virtual machine disk files that are protected by vSphere Replication (VR) using ...

VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.1 Documentation Library

Did you have questions on the steps in these articles?

[kotiadinesh]

Hello gs_khalsa,

Thanks for the reply.I have already gone through above links and had a doubt whether a single disk to be renamed at destination or entire VM. We are still working on this, will update my steps once we finish the activity.

[creativehouse]

Welcome to this community.