Specify the size of the additional disk to create.From the Hardware tab in the Exinda Virtual Appliance Properties screen, click Add.So if you have given 4GB of RAM to your Virtual Appliance, you can add up to 400GB of extra storage. As a general rule, you should add a maximum of 100GB of disk storage per 1GB of RAM. The size of the disk you should add largely depends on the amount of RAM allocated to the Virtual Appliance. This is achieved by adding an additional disk to the Virtual Appliance. Usually, you will want more storage for features such as WAN Wide Area Network Memory and Edge Cache. Right-click on the C: drive and select Properties.Add Storage to the VMware Virtual Machineīy default, all Exinda Virtual Appliances come with a single 50GB (fixed-size) disk. Click Next.Ĭlick Finish on the next page, and the Unallocated partition will be added to the (C:) partition.Ĭlick Start and type This/this and click on the suggested This PC Desktop app. By default, the whole Unallocated partition will be added.
On the Select Disk page, you may choose how much extra space should be added to the main (C:) partition.
Right-click on the main (C:) partition and select Extend Volume.Įxtend Volume Wizard will open. NOTE: If there is a recovery partition located between unallocated space and at the (C:) partition, please refer to this article to delete the recovery partition and expand the disk (if there is not such recovery partition, proceed to step 3). You can add this Unallocated partition manually to your main disk (C:) partition:
Repeat steps mentioned above to open Disk Management.ĭisk Management will report that you now have an extra partition on the hard drive that’s marked as Unallocated. If the size of Hard Disk in the VM’s configuration has changed and at the same time the size of the local disk (C:) in Windows has not, do the following: The size of the main partition (the partition where the Windows installation is located - it is local disk (C:) by default) should equal the size of the virtual hard disk (Hard Disk 1). Right-click on the Start menu > Disk Management or click on the Start menu and type Disk Management. To make sure the changes were applied successfully, confirm that the size of the virtual hard disk has changed: In case of power surges/failures with the Mac, Mac's unpredictable restarts or third-party applications interventions, during the operations with the virtual hard drive may result in its corruption result in the inability to use the virtual machine. Note: as mentioned above, we strongly recommend creating a backup of the VM. to open the corresponding dialogue window then remove Snapshots to start editing the disk size.Ĭhoose the size you want for the virtual hard disk and click Apply.Īfter that Parallels Desktop will suggest creating a backup of the VM. If the VM has Snapshots the following notification window will appear. Go to the Hardware tab, select Hard Disk which requires increasing the size then click Properties. Go to the Hardware tab, select Hard Disk which requires increasing the size then expand the Advanced Settings drop-down menu, then click Properties.įor earlier Parallels Desktop versions (13 and below): Go to the Hardware tab, select Hard Disk which requires increasing the size then click Advanced. > Properties.įor Parallels Desktop 14 - Parallels Desktop 16: Right-click on your virtual machine and choose Configure to open its configuration. Shut it down if it is either suspended or running.Ĭlick on the Parallels icon on Mac menu bar and select Control Center: Start Parallels Desktop and do not start your virtual machine. Starting from version 14, Parallels Desktop® will periodically check free disk space left in the virtual hard disk and offer to increase (resize) hard disk via macOS® notifications. In case you increased the size of the disk in the VM configuration, but Windows shows the same disk size, please refer to KB 123372. Note: This article does not apply to Boot Camp-based VMs, where the primary partition size cannot be increased as its size is predefined by Boot Camp Assistant. Warning! We strongly recommend that you check your VM hard disk for errors and back up your VM before following the steps below. I am running out of free space on my virtual machine (VM), and I want to increase the size of the virtual hard disk.
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