We’ve started with virtualization, I’ll talk about this beautiful sexy technology some other time. My hands are all over it.
When creating virtual machines, each seems to have it’s own hard disk and partitions, but in fact they all share a single storage to which the virtual server that manages the virtual machines points to.
I got one v-machine with 20 GB of hard disk space and I want to increase it. Through the setting of the machines you can increase the hard disk space. Back to the v-machine, go to computer management -> disk management, you’ll see the newly unallocated space, to partition and format.
I couldn’t extend my single primary partition with the tools available in windows, I think I’ll need third party softwares.
What I did, is clone my v-machine and as I was creating the new settings, increased the C volume space. of course, you’ll need enough space to be able to create this replica machine.
Don’t forget to, tick off the connected box in network settings, if you added a network, because you don’t want conflict issues, when powering on the new machine.
Will test it fully tomorrow, to make sure all is good. Give the same settings, IP, computer name, etc, to the newly created v-machine and shut down the original one. If all goes well after some time, delete the original one to free up some space.
#1 by MBH on June 16, 2009 - 2:12 PM
Been doing virtualization for a good 3 years on servers, and about 6 years on desktops. It’s pure awesomeness!
You can extend your VM’s disk space from command line tools. No need to clone!
The last VM Host beast I put up was a few months ago: 2.6GHz Quad core Xeon, 24GB RAM and about 300GB of disk space.
Memory is abused quite quickly. If you’re OK with the VM guests swapping, consider putting the SWAP VM files on a separate storage than the one holding your VMs.
#2 by Bloggylife on June 19, 2009 - 9:04 PM
hmmm interesting memory advice, the 1st thing that runs out of RAM resource. I’ll run this by our VMware guy.
I think I got the title mixed up, I didn’t have a problem increasing the disk capacity itself, rather than the OS partition. I couldn’t extend it, I thought vmware had this tool to do just that. So I just went ahead and cloned the machine and increased the partition size when setting it up.