Saturday, October 12, 2013

Extending Disk of Virtual Machine Enabled for Vsphere Replication


Extending Disk of Virtual Machine 
Enabled for vSphere Replication
  1.  Identify disk number which need to be extended. 
  2. Disable sphere replication for that particular disk.
  3. Edit Virutal Machine and extend the disk space as per requirement. 
  4. Note down the new size of disk e.g. 70G
  5. Login to ESX host at DR site using SSH (SSH has to be enabled.) 
  6. Locate virtual disk need to be extended inside respective datastore.
  7. Use this command to extend disk space.
    # vmkfstools -X 70G test-vm_1.vmdk
  8. Re-Enable replication and click yes when asked whether to existing disk.
  9. It will take some time for checksum and replication to complete.
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