vmdk resize

How do I resize a VMDK file?
How do I reduce the size of a VMware disk?
How do you shrink a thick provisioned VMDK?
How do I increase the size of my VMware hard drive?
How do I increase hard drive space in vSphere 6?
How do I vMotion a VM to another host?
Can you shrink a VMDK?
Can you shrink a thick provisioned disk?
How do I reduce the size of my thin provisioned disk?
How do I change a VMware disk from thick to thin?
How do I resize a VDI file?
How do I change hard drive capacity?
How do I resize a partition in Linux?

How do I resize a VMDK file?

I did this:

Launch new enlarged vmdk image.
Go to Start and right click Computer and select Manage.
Click Disk Management.
You should see some grayed space on your (in my case) C drive.
Right click the C drive and select Extend Volume.
Choose size and go.

How do I reduce the size of a VMware disk?

To shrink a virtual disk:

Launch the control panel. ...
Click the Shrink tab.
Select the virtual disks you want to shrink, then click Prepare to Shrink. ...
Click Yes when VMware Tools finishes wiping the selected disk partitions. ...
Click OK to finish.

How do you shrink a thick provisioned VMDK?

It shows "Provisioned Space = 100GB", and "Used Space = 22.61GB".
...

resize the partition inside the guest.
power off the guest.
cut down the flat.vmdk with a dd-command.
adjust the size in the vmdk descriptor.
boot the VM with a Linux LiveCD that can rebuild the GPT-backup at the end of the disk.
reboot the VM.

How do I increase the size of my VMware hard drive?

To enlarge a virtual machine's hard disk in VMware, power off the virtual machine, right-click it, and select Virtual Machine Settings. Select the virtual hard disk device in the list, click the Utilities button, and click Expand to expand the hard disk. Enter a larger maximum disk size and click the Expand button.

How do I increase hard drive space in vSphere 6?

ESX, VI Client and vSphere

Open the VMware Infrastructure (VI) client and connect with vCenter or the ESX host machine.
Right-click on the virtual machine.
Click on Edit settings.
Select Virtual Disk.
Enter the desired size for the virtual hard disk.

How do I vMotion a VM to another host?

Migrate to a different host

Log in to VMware vSphere client console.
Right-click the virtual machine and select Migrate.
Go to Migrate Virtual Machine.
Select the Change host as the Migration Type and click Next.
Select the destination host and click Next. ...
Select the vMotion priority and click Next.

Can you shrink a VMDK?

Virtual disks can be thinned so they consume only as much space as there is data residing in the . vmdk. Thinning is currently possible using VMware Converter and hosted products, such as VMware Workstation.

Can you shrink a thick provisioned disk?

You can shrink it, but the VM must be shut down and transferred to another data store. When transferring, you can change the provisioning from thick to thin. Once that 's done, you can shrink the volume from within the disk manager in computer management.

How do I reduce the size of my thin provisioned disk?

VMware, decrease the size of a thin provisioned disk

Shut down VM.
Remove VM from Inventory (DO NOT DELETE)
Start SSH on host (Config > Security Profile > Services > Properties > Options)
SSH to host using root credentials.
Navigate to location of VM VMDK file: > ...
Punch zeroes: > ...
Add VM back to Inventory; you should immediately see the Used Storage has been reduced.

How do I change a VMware disk from thick to thin?

Convert thick provisioned to thin with vmkfstools in ESXi Shell (command line)

Check VMware hard disk type. ...
Shut down VM. ...
Enable SSH on VMware ESXi host. ...
SSH into the ESXi host. ...
Navigate to the VM folder. ...
Clone the VMDK to a thin provisioned disk using vmkfstools. ...
Rename old flat file. ...
Rename new flat file.

How do I resize a VDI file?

Step 2. Resize the VDI file

Shut down VirtualBox again.
Make a copy of the VDI file – just in case (“MyLinux.vdi” -> “MyLinuxCopy.vdi“)
Go into the Windows command prompt (Start->type “cmd” into the box)
cd to the location of the VDI file that you wish to resize, e.g., “d:\MyLinux.vdi“

How do I change hard drive capacity?

Step 1 Open Disk Management. Go to desktop and right-click on This PC ("Computer" in Windows 7) icon and click Manage option from context menu. Click Disk Management under Storage from the Computer Management window. Step 2 Choose the partition you want to resize, right-click on it and select Shrink Volume option.

How do I resize a partition in Linux?

To resize a partition using fdisk :

Unmount the device: ...
Run fdisk disk_name . ...
Use the p option to determine the line number of the partition to be deleted. ...
Use the d option to delete a partition. ...
Use the n option to create a partition and follow the prompts. ...
Set the partition type to LVM: