How to – Increase hard disk in a VM with vSphere Web Client

Hi,

Just a quick post, to see how to increase hard disk from the vSphere Web Client interface.

Warning: if you increase EagerZeroed hard drive via the web interface these hard drive will be transformed into LazyZeroed! If you want to stay with a EagerZeroed hard drive you do increase it via command line.

How to increase hard disk ?

• The first step is to:
  1. select the VM you wish to increase,
  2. go to the “Manage” tab,
  3. then “VM Hardware”,
  4. finally “Edit”

• Here you have to find the disk you want to increase

• Then we write the new size required for this hard disk and we validate by clicking OK!

Warning: if you increase EagerZeroed hard drive via the web interface these hard drive will be transformed into LazyZeroed! If you want to stay with a EagerZeroed hard drive you do increase it via command line.

In another post, i will be explain how to increase a datastore with a vSphere Web Client !

Maxime

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