Extending A Volume On A VMDK

Updated 3 months, 2 weeks ago

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I was combing through the VMTN community forums and came across a couple of posts on the best way to extend or expand a vmdk file.  This topic seems to come up on a regular basis, so I thought it might be a good idea to put together a blog ...

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Steve 3 months, 3 weeks ago on Wordpress

Thanks and right back at you Matt. I am going to need to spend a little time playing with ExtPart

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Matt 3 months, 3 weeks ago on Wordpress

I wrote up a blog post on how to expand boot volumes using ExtPart from Dell. You can check it out here:

http://blogs.kraftkennedy.com/index.php/2009/06/30/expand-virtual-machine-boot-volumes-with-no-downtime/

Nice article, Steve!

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Christian Mohn 3 months, 3 weeks ago on Wordpress

I posted a small article about how to use GParted to achive this a while ago: Howto: Expand VM boot partition. From what I hear, the ExtPart utility will let you do this inside a running VM, but I haven’t tested that yet.

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TristanTodd 3 months, 3 weeks ago on Wordpress

I’ve found that using Converter to perform a “hot” V2V conversion is a completely reliable way to resize volumes. It allows for a pretty solid path of retreat.

In the past I’ve used diskpart and gparted but found that it can be easy to make a mistake. The Converter method seems rather bulletproof.

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