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Posted to dev@vcl.apache.org by "Waldron, Michael H" <mw...@email.unc.edu> on 2014/02/26 14:31:39 UTC
Can't increase size of VM hard disk on ESXi
I have been using the procedure for resizing hard disks for VM images on
ESXi hosts documented at
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/VCL/How+to+Increase+the+Size+of+a+Virtual+Machine+Hard+Drive+Under+VMware+ESXi
with no problems in the past.
Suddenly, I'm now getting this error in vSphere client when I try to
remove the original hard disk of the VM, and add the copy that was made
from it and resized:
"Cannot remove virtual disk from the virtual machine because it or one
of its parent disks is part of a snapshot of the virtual machine."
This is after making an imaging reservation for the image, shutting down
the vm, making a copy of the current disk and resizing it using:
vmkfstools -i original.vmdk copy.vmdk -d thin
vmkfstools -X 35G copy.vmdk
I can't think of anything that has changed in the setup (VCL 2.3.1 or
ESXi) since I last did this successfully. I've tried with several
different images on differ ESXi hosts and get the same result. I've
tried on both ESXi 5.1 and 5.5 hosts.
Has anyone else seen this?
--
Mike Waldron
Systems Specialist
ITS - Research Computing Center
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Re: Can't increase size of VM hard disk on ESXi
Posted by Andy Kurth <an...@ncsu.edu>.
I have seen the same issue. The instructions need to be updated. The
original vmdk path may remain in the .vmsd and .vmsn files.
-Andy
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 10:08 AM, Waldron, Michael H <mwaldron@email.unc.edu
> wrote:
> I got around this error by deleting the snapshot on the VM first.
> Curious that I never had to do that before.
>
> Mike Waldron
> Systems Specialist
> ITS - Research Computing Center
> University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
>
> On 02/26/2014 08:31 AM, Waldron, Michael H wrote:
> > I have been using the procedure for resizing hard disks for VM images on
> > ESXi hosts documented at
> >
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/VCL/How+to+Increase+the+Size+of+a+Virtual+Machine+Hard+Drive+Under+VMware+ESXi
> > with no problems in the past.
> >
> > Suddenly, I'm now getting this error in vSphere client when I try to
> > remove the original hard disk of the VM, and add the copy that was made
> > from it and resized:
> >
> > "Cannot remove virtual disk from the virtual machine because it or one
> > of its parent disks is part of a snapshot of the virtual machine."
> >
> > This is after making an imaging reservation for the image, shutting down
> > the vm, making a copy of the current disk and resizing it using:
> > vmkfstools -i original.vmdk copy.vmdk -d thin
> > vmkfstools -X 35G copy.vmdk
> >
> > I can't think of anything that has changed in the setup (VCL 2.3.1 or
> > ESXi) since I last did this successfully. I've tried with several
> > different images on differ ESXi hosts and get the same result. I've
> > tried on both ESXi 5.1 and 5.5 hosts.
> >
> > Has anyone else seen this?
> >
>
>
Re: Can't increase size of VM hard disk on ESXi
Posted by "Waldron, Michael H" <mw...@email.unc.edu>.
I got around this error by deleting the snapshot on the VM first.
Curious that I never had to do that before.
Mike Waldron
Systems Specialist
ITS - Research Computing Center
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
On 02/26/2014 08:31 AM, Waldron, Michael H wrote:
> I have been using the procedure for resizing hard disks for VM images on
> ESXi hosts documented at
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/VCL/How+to+Increase+the+Size+of+a+Virtual+Machine+Hard+Drive+Under+VMware+ESXi
> with no problems in the past.
>
> Suddenly, I'm now getting this error in vSphere client when I try to
> remove the original hard disk of the VM, and add the copy that was made
> from it and resized:
>
> "Cannot remove virtual disk from the virtual machine because it or one
> of its parent disks is part of a snapshot of the virtual machine."
>
> This is after making an imaging reservation for the image, shutting down
> the vm, making a copy of the current disk and resizing it using:
> vmkfstools -i original.vmdk copy.vmdk -d thin
> vmkfstools -X 35G copy.vmdk
>
> I can't think of anything that has changed in the setup (VCL 2.3.1 or
> ESXi) since I last did this successfully. I've tried with several
> different images on differ ESXi hosts and get the same result. I've
> tried on both ESXi 5.1 and 5.5 hosts.
>
> Has anyone else seen this?
>