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If you mean the datastore, this can be expanded as well. Can you clarify if you need to expand the space on a VM or datastore.
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we have Esxi 5.5 running on our hosts. I need to add more disk space to the Data drive. Is it as simple as shutting down the vm, editing the settings and adding the extra drive space then booting the vm going to disk management and expanding there?
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Hi

we have Esxi 5.5 running on our hosts. I need to add more disk space to the Data drive. Is it as simple as shutting down the vm, editing the settings and adding the extra drive space then booting the vm going to disk management and expanding there?

expanding size on data drive

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.