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ESXi 6.5 Host Client & Disk Resizing

I've Googled for this and I can't Google anymore....

A simple action back in 5.5 appears to have problems now that I have upgrade most of the standalone ESXi servers to 6.5:

Live Resizing of Disks - aka resize without shutting down the VM.

ESXi 6.5 Build 5224529 (1 version old):

VM version 11 (6.0 VM)

Host Client - Cannot change size numerical value. Greyed out. CAN change UNIT: MB, GB, TB, etc.

Thick Client - CAN change both.

VM version 13 (6.5 VM)

Host Client - Cannot change size numerical value. Greyed out. CAN change UNIT: MB, GB, TB, etc.

Thick Client - Won't open Edit Settings at all.

All disks Thick, lazy zeroed

No snapshots

Size of disks less than 2TB. Often as small as 60GB.

What am I missing? Is this a bug? VMware wants to move to the host client, but I can't do basic tasks I used to be able to do.

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Updated a "test" server to latest build, 5310538. So far that would seem to have fixed it. Just have a couple of Windows 7 VMs there, but ensured the disks showed greyed out before I updated.

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Updated a "test" server to latest build, 5310538. So far that would seem to have fixed it. Just have a couple of Windows 7 VMs there, but ensured the disks showed greyed out before I updated.

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