VMware VSphere Virtual Machine expansion

Environment:

Virtual machine OS is Windows 2008

VSphere Version Information:

The original system C disk is too small, almost full, need to expand.

Steps:

To be safe, first clone a virtual machine to a copy.

Original size:

Plus 100G

Start the system and check the file system status after entering the system:

You can see that the newly added 100G space is in the unallocated column:

The system partition is followed by a partition, the expansion of the Welcome button is gray. It seems that only into the PE expansion.

Reboot with Linux system disk, enter Linux environment use tool DD to clone the C drive to the new 100G new partition, then use the Windows 2008 boot disk to go to the system repair interface to repair the BCD boot item with BOOTREC.

After restarting, the hard disk partition is as follows:

You can see that the C drive has reached the end, because DD just clone the file system, but the size has not changed so the file system interface is full:

Let's give it a little more space to use:

As you can see, the extended menu is ready for use:

The following is the case of a completed expansion:

VMware VSphere Virtual Machine expansion