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Use the VI Client to select "Edit Settings" from your entire VM and choose the existing Harddisk. Increase the Size to the new value.
After that log into the VM Guest OS and open the disk manager and perfrom a rescan. Take notice the unused diskspace on the Disk and expand the existing volume.
All these steps can made wihle the VM is still up and running. The W2k8 have a entry in the GUI for increasing the existing volume and for older Windows you have to use the "diskpart" commandline utility.
From my brain:
diskpart
> list disk
> select disk <ID>
> list volume
> select volume <ID>
> expand volume
> exit
Keep in mind that older Windows versions doesnt supporting the increase of the boot volume. You need a special diskpart.exe or better mount this VMDK in a helper VM as 2nd Disk.
Regards
Joerg
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