Hi all,
I think this should be an easy one...
I used to expand Virtual Hard Disks in vCenter just by heading in and increasing the size but that option is now greyed out scince upgrading to vSphere 4.0... I have PowerCLI on the network and I've got as far as "get-VM | get-HardDisk" and I get a list of the 2 drives attached to the VM, it's the data drive not the system drive I want to expand and that should be easy enough to do as far as I know...

can I set this via PowerCLI and if so how? if not and anyone knows how to do this are you able to point me in the right direction please?

Thanks,
Dave

You should consider going to the VMWare forums in this case:
http://communities.vmware.com/commu...s/powercli

You can do this in PowerCLI with the Set-HardDisk cmdlet.

Set-HardDisk -HardDisk $hd -CapacityKB $extendedCapacity -HostCredential $hostCred -GuestCredential $guestCred

Extends a hard disk with the specified capacity. The command also extends the disk on the guest OS.

Robert

thanks for your reply - just trying it out now
what do I use for -HardDisk? I tried the Id bit it cannot bind parameter 'HardDisk'?
thanks
   EDIT:
OK, I may be barking up the wrong tree on this anyway... the Provisionsed Size is grayed out and Max side says N/A - I have checked an another VM and it's settings are avalible - same guest OS etc... Below are outputs of both Guests - the top one gives options to change the bottom one doesn't - settings are the same in VIClient also appart from bottom one is greyed out

[vSphere PowerCLI] C:\> get-vm "Academy Apps/Updates Server" | Get-HardDisk | se lect *

StorageFormat : Thick
Persistence : Persistent
DiskType : Flat Filename : [MSA2000_1_2] Academy Apps+JQ-2fUpdates Server/Academy Apps+J Q-2fUpdates Server.vmdk
CapacityKB : 41943040
ParentId : VirtualMachine-vm-134
ConnectionState :
Id : VirtualMachine-vm-134/2000
Name : Hard disk 1

StorageFormat : Thick
Persistence : Persistent
DiskType : Flat
Filename : [MSA2000_1_2] Academy Apps+JQ-2fUpdates Server/Academy Apps+J Q-2fUpdates Server_1.vmdk
CapacityKB : 209715200
ParentId : VirtualMachine-vm-134
ConnectionState :
Id : VirtualMachine-vm-134/2001
Name : Hard disk 2

[vSphere PowerCLI] C:\> get-vm phwds | Get-HardDisk | select *

StorageFormat : Thick
Persistence : Persistent
DiskType : Flat
Filename : [MSA2000_1_3] phwds/phwds-000001.vmdk
CapacityKB : 41943040
ParentId : VirtualMachine-vm-1366
ConnectionState :
Id : VirtualMachine-vm-1366/2000
Name : Hard disk 1

StorageFormat : Thick
Persistence : Persistent
DiskType : Flat
Filename : [MSA2000_1_3] phwds/phwds_1-000001.vmdk
CapacityKB : 52428800
ParentId : VirtualMachine-vm-1366
ConnectionState :
Id : VirtualMachine-vm-1366/2001
Name : Hard disk 2

Simple problem - there was a snapshot which prevented the disk size being changed - thanks for the help