In using VMWare Server running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (CentOS 5) I discovered a rather difficult problem. My setup includes Red Hat Linux 5.2, Solaris 10 and Windows Server 2003 guests running on a Red Hat 5.2 host server all 64bit except for Windows running on AMD Opteron multicore processors on an HP …
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Resizing VMWare Server Virtual Disk
Today I needed to resize a VMWare Virtual Disk (vmdk) for a Windows Server 2003 image running on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 host using LVM to manage the physical, local disk space. In my case, my logical volume was too small to accommodate the vmdk expansion and so I had to grow my …