James Harrell

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Thank you for the article, it was very helpful. &nbsp;Essentially it appears that although the GUI indicated that he consolidation was completed it took longer to actually complete. &nbsp;While I was looking at the various files, per your article, the greyed out area changed and I was able to increase the volume size.<br />
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Again, thank you very much for the assistance.
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Thank you for the article, it was very helpful.  Essentially it appears that although the GUI indicated that he consolidation was completed it took longer to actually complete.  While I was looking at the various files, per your article, the greyed out area changed and I was able to increase the volume size.

Again, thank you very much for the assistance.

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Hence the Be Patient.<br />
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Glad it's resolved...
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Hence the Be Patient.

Glad it's resolved...

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I am trying to expand a disk on a virtual machine which is hosted in VMware. &nbsp;The option to expand is greyed out. &nbsp;Upon examination the disk name is appended with .00001.vmdk. &nbsp;As I researched it appears that this is caused by having a snapshot. &nbsp;I was getting a message that consolidation was required. &nbsp;I did this and it completed successfully, however did nit resolve the problem. &nbsp;I also created a snapshot and then “deleted all” - with the same result. &nbsp;I have found a couple of posting which talk about lost or corrupt snapshots, but I don’t seem to find a clear way to resolve this issue.<br />
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Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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I am trying to expand a disk on a virtual machine which is hosted in VMware.  The option to expand is greyed out.  Upon examination the disk name is appended with .00001.vmdk.  As I researched it appears that this is caused by having a snapshot.  I was getting a message that consolidation was required.  I did this and it completed successfully, however did nit resolve the problem.  I also created a snapshot and then “deleted all” - with the same result.  I have found a couple of posting which talk about lost or corrupt snapshots, but I don’t seem to find a clear way to resolve this issue.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Orphaned Snapshots?

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.