VC 2.5 not showing proper disk size of my VM

[ThierryL]

I'm currently using VC 2.5 with no update. When I go to the Virtual Machine properties, Hardware, Hard Disk 1, the Disk Size shows 20GB. When I go into my VM(Win XP 32 bit), the disk capacity shows 25GB. The VM was originally created with 20GB, yesterday I added 5 GB more with the command "vmkfstools -X 25G myvm.vmdk" when I ssh to my esx server. How come the proper size is not displayed properly through VC? I remember doing similar disk resizing in the past with a previous version of VC, which shows the new size properly.

[azn2kew]

You can download VCPlus tools which is really good reviewing all disk size in VC and I'm using it now.

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[ThierryL]

Someone suggested this tool to me last week, I can't really use it because it modifies the VC database and our sys admin team doesn't recommend changing their windows servers, it will be against their standard. I'm currently using a perl script which makes use of the VI perl toolkit, it works pretty well but this disk size bug from the VC is giving me some false values.

[ThierryL]

Actually, the following works:

service mgmt-vmware restart

The VC updates properly after a few minutes, read it from a past thread.