increase non-OS drive

[distsys]

I am attempting to increase the size of a non-operating system hard drive via virtual center and can't seem to get it to work. I've powered off the vm and am editing the hard disk size and see in virtual center that its attempting to make the change and I see the task complete but when I edit the properties it appears to not have changed. I am familiar with the process of expanding the size of a disk that had an OS on it but thought the change to a non-OS disk was a simple process through virtual center. What am I missing?

[weinstein5]

You might still need to resize the disk within the guest o/s of the vm - what operating system are you running?

[distsys]

I'm running windows 2003 standard. I understand that I would need increase the disk so the winows partition could be expanded but I don't see the disk size increased in virtual center. I'm attempting to expand 40GB to 65GB and it takes my update and I see the task progress in virtual center and complete but when I click on the guest and edit the properties it still says 40GB so it would appear to revert back to the original disk size.

[dkfbp]

What version are your ESX host? In order to use the VC gui to expand the disk your host needs to be at least ESX 3.5. Otherwise just do it through the service console

with the "vmkfstools -X 65G vmname.vmdk"

Best regards

Frank Brix Pedersen

[AntonVZhbankov · Accepted solution]

Are there any snapshots for this VM?

[distsys]

that must be the problem, knew I was missing something basic...thanks!