Increase VMWare Disk Size

Basic notes:

– Do not use Dynamic Disks in VMWare!
– You cannot re-size the OS disk using this process, but likely can with 3rd party utilities.
– NEVER decrease the size of a disk (says you can – don’t)!

Now the steps:

– Shut down the guest (consider disabling network to be 100% no one is using the drive)
– Edit Settings and increase the disk size
– Start the server and verify the new disk size in Disk Manager
– At this point, you could just create a new partition with the unused space
– From a cmd, run diskpart
– Assuming D: drive, issue these commands:
– select volume d
– extend
(Pretty cool, huh?)
– Run a full disk check just to be sure

This is the ‘Windows’ solution, which is good to be sure everything is compatible. You could also boot from the gparted live CD image, which would also allow you to resize the OS Partition

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