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Aug 7, 2008 1:45 PM by
Srinivas Vivek
Re: How to expand the VM disk in esx 3
You need to shutdown the VM
Then log on to the console of the Host server
Change to the directory that contains the VMDK (you can just pass the full path to the command line but I find this less confusing)
Type the command: vmkfstools -X <size> G <VMDK file name> (note that G stands for gigabytes so to expand a disk to 32 GB it would simply be vmkfstools -X 32G some.vmdk).
Type ls -lh and you should see the VMDK is now that size.
At this point you must use the OS tools to in order to see the additional space. I don't kow how this is done in Novel but in Windows I use the 'diskpart' tool.
Good luck
p.s. of course you make a backup first
