Adding a second hard drive under CentOS solved my problem as LVM was already in use. Unfortunately, I needed to double 32GB space without creating a new D: drive under Windows Vista. Here is a simple procedure to increase your Virtual machine's disk capacity by resizing vmware vmdk file. Jan 31, 2008 You could use a similar procedure to shrink the partition size, but vmware-vdiskmanager doesn't support shrinking the max size of disks. If you're using a sparse disk and you shrink using VMware Tools before shrinking the partition with gparted (or equivalent), this should do the right thing of reducing the on-disk usage, but it doesn't help if you use preallocated.
In this article, we will examine the steps to expand/increase the disk capacity/size of a virtual machine installed on VMware Workstation.
How to Increase Hard Disk Space/Size of Virtual Machine on VMware Workstation
Users with advanced computer knowledge are familiar with the VMware Workstation virtualization program. You may need to increase the hard disk size of virtual machines installed on VMware Workstation when you need them.
It is a very simple process to increase the hard disk space of the virtual machine installed on the VMware Workstation virtualization program. In our previous articles, we examined How to Clone in a VM and How to Snapshot a VM.
In this article, we will take steps to increase the hard disk space in VMware. On Windows, Linux, macOS operating systems installed on VMware, HDD expansion can be done easily.
Before expanding the C: drive of the VMware virtual machine, the VM must not have Snapshot. If you have previously received a Snapshot, you must delete it from the Snapshot manager.
How to Configure Virtual Machine Disk Size on VMware Workstation 12/14/15
In all versions of VM Workstation, the steps for increasing disk space are the same. Follow the steps below in order to increase the C: drive area of your VM.
You can also download VM Workstation 15 from here to your Windows computer …
Step 1
After running VMware Workstation, open the virtual machine where you want to expand the HDD. Then click on the Hard Disk option as in the image below.
Step 2
In the Virtual Machine Settings window, click the Expand button.
![Resize Resize](/uploads/1/2/5/0/125046466/869030159.jpg)
Step 3
In the Expand Disk Capacity window, type the amount in Maximum Disk Size (GB) if you want to increase the size of the virtual machine’s C: drive.
Step 4
After specifying the size amount, click the Expand button.
Step 5
Expanding the virtual HDD of the VMware virtual machine …
Step 6
The expansion of VMware disk capacity has completed successfully. The warning in the image below tells us to set the HDD on the operating system. Now click OK to continue.
Step 7
Click the OK button to save the setting.
Step 8
Start the virtual machine.
Step 9
On My Computer, you can see that the size does not increase on the C: drive. That’s why you need to open Disk Management.
Step 10
Click the Right Button / Manage button on my computer.
Step 11
Click Disk Management and then right click on the (C:) drive.
Step 12
In the window that opens, click Extend Volume.
Step 13
The Wizard window is opened. Continue by pressing the Next button.
Step 14
On the Selected tab, you can see the amount of HDD that you can increase. Select Disk 0 to continue.
Step 15
After increasing the disk size of the virtual machine on the VM, click Finish.
Step 16
As you can see in the image below, the process to increase hard disk space in VMware has completed successfully.
Step 17
You can check the C: drive in the following image that it has expanded.
How to Increase the C: Drive Size of a Virtual Machine on VMware ⇒ Video
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How to Expand Virtual Hard Disk Space on VM Workstation 15 ⇒ Video
You can watch the video below to increase the HDD size of Windows 10 virtual machine running on VM Workstation!
Final Word
In this article, we have examined step by step how to increase the disk size of a virtual machine in the VM Workstation virtualization program installed on Windows 10 PC. The only thing you should remember when increasing the HDD size is that you need to delete the snapshot of the virtual machine. Thanks for following us!
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