Add disk vs. increase disk size VMWare
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05-25-2017 07:02 AM
We have recently installed VMWare orchestration on our development environment as a proof-of-concept to see if it something we want to use in our organization.
One issue I am having is with increase disk space on a VM. Today, you can invoke the modify VM UI action on a virtual machine instance and add a disk, but it will add an additional disk drive. What our engineers are looking for is the ability to grow the existing disk drive (which I believe you can do in vsphere/vcenter through command line options) and not create a new one.
Is there a way to do this with the out-of-the-box activities in Orchestration. If not, does someone have a custom activity we can create in order to accomplish this?

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05-26-2017 12:25 PM
Hi Jamie,
You can use OOB Add Disk activity. (This needs orchestration and Orch-VMWare activities plugin)
Within workflow editor you can find them under custom tab (top right corner)
Thanks,
Giri Guntoju
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05-26-2017 01:24 PM
The OOB Add Disk activity does not add to an existing drive, but creates a new one. While we have some use cases where we want to create a new disk, in most cases we simply want to increase the size of the existing one.