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Strange ESXi 4.0 problem

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ashman

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So yesterday I was a clients powering down their servers due to some electrical work that had to be done, I wanted to take the opportunity to add some space to the C drive's of a few of the VM's as they are getting dangerously low on disk space (5-6GB). On powering up the host and taking it out of maintenance mode, I found that when I went to edit the properties of the powered off VM in Vcenter, they C drive was greyed out on two of the three servers I wanted to make changes to. Only a Windows Server 2008 32 bit server would allow me to modify the size of the drive, the other two which happen to be running Server 2008R2 were greyed out. There were no snapshots on the other two servers that I can think of but I didn't actually check, they use Veeam to back up there servers.

All the VM's are virtual machine version 7 and the disks are all thick provisioned.

Any ideas?
 
Snapshot - even if the manager doesn't show it, betcha it's got one. Check the drive settings - bet you see the -0000X designator.
 
Ok will check for snapshots, but my understanding with Veeam, is that it takes a snapshot, backs up from the snapshot, then deletes the snapshot when its done, so no reason they would have snapshots. Veeam was definitely not backing up when I shut the VM's down. No I have not tried expanding the disks via Diskpart, I need to be able to add the extra space first.
 
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