{"id":71,"date":"2015-10-28T05:47:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T05:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/waynenguyen.org\/dev\/2015\/10\/28\/how-to-expand-vmware-virtual-hard-drive\/"},"modified":"2016-05-21T03:15:53","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T03:15:53","slug":"how-to-expand-vmware-virtual-hard-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bruceng.com\/dev\/?p=71","title":{"rendered":"How to expand VMWare virtual hard drive storage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" trbidi=\"on\">\nTo expand the VM&#8217;s hard drive, make sure you have enough free space in your physical harddrive to commodate the old file + the new file.<\/p>\n<p>e.g: to expand the virtual hard drive from 80GB to 100GB, you need 100GB free space in the hard drive story the VD, not 20GB, but 100GB.<\/p>\n<p>This is because VMWare will create a new file with the size of 100GB and copy the content from the 80GB VD over, then delete the 80GB VD<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To expand the VM&#8217;s hard drive, make sure you have enough free space in your physical harddrive to commodate the old file + the new file. e.g: to expand the virtual hard drive from 80GB to 100GB, you need 100GB free space in the hard drive story the VD, not 20GB, but 100GB. This is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bruceng.com\/dev\/?p=71\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to expand VMWare virtual hard drive storage&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruceng.com\/dev\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruceng.com\/dev\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruceng.com\/dev\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruceng.com\/dev\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruceng.com\/dev\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bruceng.com\/dev\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191,"href":"https:\/\/bruceng.com\/dev\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruceng.com\/dev\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruceng.com\/dev\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruceng.com\/dev\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}