Saturday, September 24, 2016

add more room to grow to a VM

A VMWare VM with snapshots cannot have its hard drive expanded. The way you might otherwise expand a drive is by clicking "Edit virtual machine settings" at the upper left and then clicking on a hard drive and clicking the "Utilities" button. After you expand the size of a VMWare VM (do this while it's powered off), power the VM back on and go into the Server Manager to expand the size of the partition. At Windows Server 2012 R2 for example you will go to "File and Storage Services" at the upper left, then pick "Disks" from the upper left menu that comes after that. Finally, right-click on a drive and pick "Extend Volume..."

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