{"id":6837,"date":"2012-11-25T11:52:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-25T16:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jianmingli.com\/wp\/?p=6837"},"modified":"2015-07-20T14:55:38","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T19:55:38","slug":"extend-vmware-disk-size-with-gparted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jianmingli.com\/wp\/?p=6837","title":{"rendered":"Extend VMware Linux Disk Size with GParted"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Contents<\/h2>\n
    \n\t
  1. \n\t\tExpand Disk Size<\/a>\n\t\t
      \n\t\t\t
    1. \n\t\t\t\tESXi<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t
    2. \n\t\t\t\tVMPlayer<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t<\/ol>\n\t
    3. \n\t\tDownload<\/a>\n\t<\/li>\n\t
    4. \n\t\tMount ISO file as CD\/DVD<\/a>\n\t\t
        \n\t\t\t
      1. \n\t\t\t\tESXi<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t
      2. \n\t\t\t\tVMPlayer<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t<\/ol>\n\t
      3. \n\t\tBoot from ISO Image<\/a>\n\t\t
          \n\t\t\t
        1. \n\t\t\t\tESXi<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t
        2. \n\t\t\t\tVMPlayer<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t
        3. \n\t\t\t\tBoot to GParted<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t<\/ol>\n\t
        4. \n\t\tExpand Disk Size<\/a>\n\t\t
            \n\t\t\t
          1. \n\t\t\t\tESXi Resize<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t
          2. \n\t\t\t\tVMPlayer Resize<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n
             <\/div>\n

            Expand Disk Size<\/h2><\/span>\n

            ESXi<\/h3><\/span>\n

            * Select Edit virtual machine settings > Hardware > Hard disk 1<\/em>
            \n* Increase Provisioned Size<\/em> to desired size, e.g. 500<\/strong> GB<\/p>\n

            \"esxi_expandDisk_increaseDisk_1\"<\/a><\/h6><\/span>\n

            VMPlayer<\/h3><\/span>\n

            * Select Edit virtual machine setting > Hardware > Hard Disk > Utilities > Expand…<\/em>
            \n* Expand disk to desired size, e.g. 20 GB:<\/p>\n

            \"\"<\/a><\/h6><\/span>\n

            Download<\/h2><\/span>\n

            * Download GParted from Sourforge download site<\/a>, e.g. I downloaded gparted-live-0.14.0-1.iso<\/a><\/p>\n

            Mount ISO file as CD\/DVD<\/h2><\/span>\n

            ESXi<\/h3><\/span>\n

            * Select Edit virtual machine setting > Hardware > CD\/DVD<\/em>
            \n* Browse to GParted ISO file:<\/p>\n

            \"esxi_expandDisk_mountGparted_1\"<\/a><\/h6><\/span>\n

            * Select Edit virtual machine setting > Options > General Options > Boot Ooptions<\/em>
            \n* Select Force BIOS setup<\/em><\/p>\n

            \"esxi_expandDisk_bootToCD_1\"<\/a><\/h6><\/span>\n

            VMPlayer<\/h3><\/span>\n

            * Select Edit virtual machine setting > Hardware > CD\/DVD > Use ISO image file:<\/em>
            \n– Browse to GParted ISO file<\/p>\n

            \"\"<\/a><\/h6><\/span>\n

            * Don’t forget to check Connect at power on<\/em>.
            \n* Important!<\/strong> Click Advanced<\/em> button and select SCSI (without this I couldn’t see cdrom on startup menu):<\/p>\n

            \"\"<\/a><\/h6><\/span>\n

            Boot from ISO Image<\/h2><\/span>\n

            ESXi<\/h3><\/span>\n

            * Start VM
            \n* Move CD drive as first boot device<\/p>\n

            \"esxi_expandDisk_bootToCD_2\"<\/a><\/h6><\/span>\n

            VMPlayer<\/h3><\/span>\n

            * Start VM by clicking Play virtual machine<\/em>.
            \n* As soon as VM starts, click inside the VM window and press ESC<\/em> keyboard button to bring up boot menu.
            \n* From Boot Menu, select CD-ROM Drive<\/p>\n

            \"\"<\/a><\/h6><\/span>\n

            Boot to GParted<\/h3><\/span>\n

            * Accept all defaults to boot:<\/p>\n

            \"\"<\/a><\/h6><\/span>\n

            – Select: GParted Live (Default settings)
            \n– Select: Don’t touch keymap
            \n– Select language: 33: US English
            \n– Select (0) Continue to start X to use GParted automatically<\/p>\n

            Expand Disk Size<\/h2><\/span>\n

            ESXi Resize<\/h3><\/span>\n

            * Select the disk to be resized, e.g. \/dev\/sda<\/em>
            \n* Select extended partition and then select Resize\/Move<\/em>
            \n* You may need move or delete\/recreate linux-swap partition. For example, move \/dev\/sda2 extended partition, move \/dev\/sda5\/linux-swap, extend \/dev\/sda1
            \nbefore:<\/p>\n

            \"esxi_expandDisk_gparted_resize_before\"<\/a><\/h6><\/span>\n

            after:<\/p>\n

            \"esxi_expandDisk_gparted_resize_after\"<\/a><\/h6><\/span>\n

            * Click Apply<\/em><\/p>\n

            VMPlayer Resize<\/h3><\/span>\n

            * Select the disk to be resized, e.g. \/dev\/sdb<\/em>
            \n* Click the Resize\/Move<\/em> menu button.
            \n* Drag the right side arrow to resize:<\/p>\n

            \"\"<\/a><\/h6><\/span>\n

            * Click Apply<\/em>:<\/p>\n

            \"\"<\/a><\/h6><\/span>\n

            * Shutdown GParted by triple clicking<\/em> the Exit button and then select Shutdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

            Expand Disk Size ESXi * Select Edit virtual machine settings > Hardware > Hard disk 1 * Increase Provisioned Size to desired size, e.g. 500 GB VMPlayer * Select Edit virtual machine setting > Hardware > Hard Disk > Utilities … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[124],"tags":[298,602],"class_list":["post-6837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vmware","tag-gparted","tag-vmware"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8cRUO-1Mh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jianmingli.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jianmingli.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jianmingli.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jianmingli.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jianmingli.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6837"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/jianmingli.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10820,"href":"https:\/\/jianmingli.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6837\/revisions\/10820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jianmingli.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jianmingli.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jianmingli.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}