cookiesmonster Posted May 6, 2016 #1 Posted May 6, 2016 Hi, I have build a VM with the latest Xpenology inside. Disk 1 has the xpenology Disk 2 has the apps Now disk 2 is full. I know it's possible to resize a disk in VMware and that is not the issue. But how can i resize the disk in Xpenology? With regards
sbv3000 Posted May 7, 2016 #2 Posted May 7, 2016 I'm not sure its possible to expand a volume in DSM on the same disk, generally when you initialise a disk it creates the partitions it needs and sets the data volume to the 'full size' of the disk. But you should be able to add another disk to the VM and add that to expand the overall data volume size, see here https://www.synology.com/en-global/know ... d_add_disk Before you 'play' I would copy your VM as a backup though
AllGamer Posted May 8, 2016 #3 Posted May 8, 2016 I've done physical disk resize in a real Synology box before, and was from way back with DSM 3.x so, it's definitely possible to Extend the size of the existing HDD to use the remaining available space, as mentioned by sbv3000 Assuming it's a RAID1 setup then change one of your 2 disk in volume 1 to a larger HDD / virtual HDD then boot back up the machine, let the mirror complete the "repair" process, so it clones both to be the same. then shutdown the machine / VM again and swap the remaining small HDD for a larger HDD / virtual HDD after you restart it will do the "repair" again to sync both HDD to be the same after it finishes, you'll get the option to Extend the volume size to use the remaining new found space.
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