Hi there,
I have a strange issue with one of my VMs on ESXi 5.1. I have a VM running on local datastore1 (c drive) and I have created a new virtual disk on datastore4 which is hosted on iSCSI storage device (v drive) and set the size to 45GB. later on, I increased the size of the datastore4 to 2.3TB, then increase the size of the virtual disk to 2TB and received an error:
The available memory resources in the parent resource pool are insufficient for the operation.
task: Reconfigure virtual machine.
The strange thing is, the vmdk file is now 2TB and windows recognises this and was able to increase the partition size to 2TB, but the virtual disk in vSphere is still only showing 45GB:
The datastore still has over 500GB of free space and when I try and increase the virtual disk size, it gives an error that there is insufficient disk space on the datastore.
I'm not using any resource pools and resources are set to unlimited. I've tried removing the virtual disk from the VM then adding back in using existing disk. Also tried removing the VM from inventory, then adding back in but disk still shows 45GB. looks to have failed on the virtual disk reconfiguration and now in a state where I can't change the disk.
Has anyone com across this issue before and is there a way to edit vmx or vmdk files to show true size of the disk?
Only thing I haven't tried is to move the VM to a different host. I don't have vMotion but would this work?
Thanks in advance!
Terry