Add disk vs. increase disk size VMWare

jamiegirouard
Kilo Contributor

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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ggiri1
ServiceNow Employee
ServiceNow Employee

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)


https://docs.servicenow.com/bundle/istanbul-it-operations-management/page/product/vmware-support/ref...



Thanks,


Giri Guntoju


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.