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Increase VM Hard Disk Size in a VM with vSphere Web Client

Increase VM Hard Disk size, in this blog you can see how to increase virtual machine hard disk size from the vSphere Web Client interface.

Increase Virtual Machine Hard Disk Size

1- Login to your VMware vSphere Web Client, select the Virtual Machine you want to increase the disk size, Select Configure tab, under settings select VM Hardware and click the Edit button.

2- Here you can find the VM hard disk you want to increase the size.

3- Then you can increase the new size required for this hard disk and then click the ok button.

virtual machine virtual hardware

4- Under Recent Tasks, you can see reconfigure virtual machine status.

vsphere recent tasks

5- Now VM hard disk capacity increased from 40 GB to 50 GB.

vmware vsphere web client

6- Login to your virtual machine Windows Server, open my computer, and then you can see hard disk size not yet increases.

my computer

7- Open Server Manager, expand Storage, then click Disk Management and you can see 10 GB disk unallocated.

disk management

8- Right click on hard disk C and then click Extend Volume.

disk management

9- Now welcome to the Extend Volume wizard, click next.

increase vm volume wizard

10- Select the unallocated volume and then click next.

extend volume wizard disk

11- Click finish.

increase vm volume wizard disk

12- Now you can see in my computer Local Disk C has been increased.

increase vm hard disk my computer

For more details how to expand hard disk size please visit VMware Website

Jamil Parvez

Jamil Pervez works as a Network Administrator, based in Kuwait with a Primary focus on Microsoft technologies. Microsoft Certified MCSE, MCTP, MCITP, CCNP, CCIP, CCVP with 20 years of experience in administering Windows Servers, Exchange, VMWare, Veeam B&R, Veritas BackupExec.

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