Hot-Extending Large VMDKs in vSphere 5.5

Post by Cormac Hogan (thank you)

In my recent post about the new large 64TB VMDKs available in vSphere 5.5, I mentioned that one could not hot-extend a VMDK (i.e. grow the VMDK while the VM is powered on) to the new larger size due to some Guest OS partition formats not being able to handle this change on-the-fly.

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Posted by rogerluethy on October 22, 2013

https://rogerluethy.wordpress.com/2013/10/22/hot-extending-large-vmdks-in-vsphere-5-5/