cargex
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VMware - how to Expand a Virtual Hard Disk in a Virtual Machine
Guys,
I need to expand a virtual hard drive in my Windows Server 2012 R2 Server.
The drive is configured using GPT and the current size is 5TB.
My VM is running on VMware vSphere 6.0
I found the following article to do this:
https://pubs.vmware.com/workstation-9/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.ws.using.doc%2FGUID-73BEB4E6-A1B9-41F4-BA37-364C4B067AA8.html
But I don't understand 2 of the prerequisites:
"Verify that the virtual disk is not mapped or mounted."
This is prerequisite number 2, prerequisite number one was to power off the VM, of course.
Question: If the VM has been powered off, how can the virtual hard drive be mapped or mounted?
"Verify that the virtual machine has no snapshots."
This is prerequisite number 3.
Question: The golden rule before making any change to the VM is to first make sure you create a snapshot, how can they say that I need to actually delete all my snapshots?
If I delete my snapshots then how can I backup my VM at least just for this once?
So, is this article correct?
Is this article the way to do this?
Thanking you in advance,
Cargex.
I need to expand a virtual hard drive in my Windows Server 2012 R2 Server.
The drive is configured using GPT and the current size is 5TB.
My VM is running on VMware vSphere 6.0
I found the following article to do this:
https://pubs.vmware.com/workstation-9/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.ws.using.doc%2FGUID-73BEB4E6-A1B9-41F4-BA37-364C4B067AA8.html
But I don't understand 2 of the prerequisites:
"Verify that the virtual disk is not mapped or mounted."
This is prerequisite number 2, prerequisite number one was to power off the VM, of course.
Question: If the VM has been powered off, how can the virtual hard drive be mapped or mounted?
"Verify that the virtual machine has no snapshots."
This is prerequisite number 3.
Question: The golden rule before making any change to the VM is to first make sure you create a snapshot, how can they say that I need to actually delete all my snapshots?
If I delete my snapshots then how can I backup my VM at least just for this once?
So, is this article correct?
Is this article the way to do this?
Thanking you in advance,
Cargex.
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You start a Manual Backup Job using your backup software.
How do you backup your VMs ?
It's your risk, if you make changes to production VMs, without having any backups.
How do you backup your VMs ?
It's your risk, if you make changes to production VMs, without having any backups.
ASKER
Ok, before expanding the disk I will look in to VEEAM free version, I think that will be enough for now.
Thanks.
Thanks.
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ASKER
Thank you Andrew.
Very helpful as always!
:-)
Very helpful as always!
:-)
ASKER
How can I make a "manual" full backup of a virtual machine?