Editing the size of the HDD at an existing virtual server

[kouliscon]

Hello

I had set up a virtual server but i edited the setting and especially the HDD (from 100 GB i made it to 150 GB). After that i didnt let me reboot cause of small size reasons.

My question is after i have done this change i cannot change it back?

I have to reinstall all the programs back?

thx

[FranckRookie]

Hi Kouliscon,

You can't reduce the size of a vmdk, only extend it. How did you resize it?

Sorry

Franck

[kouliscon]

i edited the virtual server and at the HDD i changed the size of the HDD from 100 to 150... but because i have 2 virtual servers in a total of 200 gb HDD and the other is using 40 GB, there were only 7 GB left and the virtual server which i have changed the size couldnt start. Does anybody know how much size is needed for the visrtual server to start?

thx

[FranckRookie · Accepted solution]

You need some additional space for the swap file (size of VM's memory) and for log files.

Franck