Expand Virtual Machine Hard Drive in Vmware GSX server and virtual server

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In order to expand virtual machine hard drive follow the steps below.

  1. Shut down virtual machine
  2. Use the Vmware expand command vmware-vdiskmanager -x 10Gb or the GUI utility of Virtual Disk Factory http://petruska.stardock.net/software/VMware.html#DiskFactory
  3. Expand disk using utility
  4. Restart virtual machine
  5. Install partition software (http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=partition+software&btnG=Google+Search&meta=)
  6. Resize partition.

We used Partition Manager 8.0 from Paragon software.