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Increase the size of the disk in vmware then if the file server is windows, from storage management increase the size of the disk.
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Increase the size of the disk in vmware then if the file server is windows, from storage management increase the size of the disk.

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I have a virtual machine that is the file server and I need to extend the volume because the volume on this virtual machine is in the red. Can you please tell me how to extend the drive volume volume of this virtual machine so I can get rid of the red
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I have a virtual machine that is the file server and I need to extend the volume because the volume on this virtual machine is in the red. Can you please tell me how to extend the drive volume volume of this virtual machine so I can get rid of the red

Extend volume for Virtual machine

Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.

Virtualization

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.