How To: Hot Extend Virtual Disks Using ESX 3.5 Update 2
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008One of the great new bits of functionality in ESX 3.5 Update is the ability to hot extend non-boot virtual disks without shutting down the VM.
I decided to give it a go with a Windows 2003 Standard VM and thought I”d provide a How To for anyone that might need/want it.
You can download the pdf here.
It is the first version of the document so please feel free to comment and let me know how to improve it.
I”m working on a Linux equivalent, but to be honest, I have never tried this before in Linux so it might be a while until the Tech Note appears 
