Team -
I have VMWare Workstation 14.1.3 build-9474260. I am trying to expand my primary disk on a Windows 2012 server from 100GB to 160GB and I am getting this vague error of -
"The called function cannot be performed on partial chains. Open the parent virtual disk."
I believe the reason is snapshots and some corruption to some of the core files in the VM directory maybe be corrupted. I have deleted all of the snapshots and there are not folders or ".lck files in the directory.
Can anybody lend a hand?
Appreciate it in advance!
Chris
Do not delete files manually !!!
Instead go to snapshotmanager and select the "delete all" option.
If snapshotmanager does not display that option - create a new snapshot first.
Then use "delete all"
Do all of this while the VM is powered off
The message you received only appears if there are snapshots.
Do not trust the display of the snapshotmanager.
Do you have any vmdks with 00000*.vmdk in the name ?
Post a directory listing please
Looks like you have one snapshot for the basedisk.
So before you can expand your vmdks you have to delete the snapshot.
And in case you still use Autoprotect - I highly recommend that you do NOT use Autoprotect
Interesting. Remnants from a previous snapshot(s).
What files do you see that are deletable? Don't worry I'll back it all up.
Thank you!
Do not delete files manually !!!
Instead go to snapshotmanager and select the "delete all" option.
If snapshotmanager does not display that option - create a new snapshot first.
Then use "delete all"
Do all of this while the VM is powered off
The easiest method would be to clone the machine as such:
Give it some time to clone it (depends upon the size of your VMDK)
Then open the new cloned VM and there shouldn't be any errors when you perform the task in this new VM.