How to Increase VMware Disc Space – Guide
When creating a virtual hard disk in VirtualBox or VMware, you can set a maximum disk size. If you need extra space on the virtual machine hard disk later, you will need to increase the virtual hard disk and partition.
Back up your virtual hard disk before performing these operations, as there is always a chance that something will go wrong.
How to Add disk space in VMware
The virtual disk must not be mounted or mapped onto the system.
A virtual machine must not have snapshots, to prevent it from being used as a source of data that can be corrupted or lost.
A virtual machine must not be a linked clone or parent of a linked clone.
To expand a virtual hard drive, first make sure that the drive is properly formatted. After the drive is formatted, you can use the Windows Disk Management tool to add space. ..
Next, you will need to increase the disk partition size in the guest operating system to match the increased virtual disk size.
Final note
VMware has announced a new way to increase its disc space on virtual machines. The company is offering a free trial of its vSphere 6.5 software that allows users to increase their virtual disk space by up to 50%.
