extending linux disk vmware hyper-v centos/redhat on the fly live

1) Checking if you can extend the current disk or need to add a new one

This is rather important step, because a disk that has been partitioned in 4 primary partitions already can not be extended any more. To check this, log into your server and run fdisk -l at the command line.

Powering off/on a virtual machine on an ESXi host

Log on to the ESXi console. Or via SSH

Get a list of all registered virtual machines, identified by their VMID, Display Name, and path to the .vmx configuration file, using this command:

VMware ESX logging files location explained

Quite a few customers have asked me how to look in ESX logs themselves. They know support often requests these logs to diagnose problems and want to know what’s in these logs. Here you go. A short list of the log files found in VMware ESX Server.

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extending linux disk vmware hyper-v centos/redhat on the fly live

1) Checking if you can extend the current disk or need to add a new one

Powering off/on a virtual machine on an ESXi host

VMware ESX logging files location explained

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