--- title: "Ampliar un volumen en vSphere y en un SO (EN)" description: "How to add space to your virtual disk and integrate it in your VM" url: https://docs.ovhcloud.com/es/guides/hosted-private-cloud/powered-by-vmware/extend-disk lang: es lastUpdated: 2022-01-13 --- # Ampliar un volumen en vSphere y en un SO (EN) ## Objective We will demonstrate how to use vSphere and OS management tools to add space to your virtual disks for both Windows and Linux. **This guide offers you a step by step study case to achieve this objective.** ## Requirements - Being an administrative contact of your [Hosted Private Cloud infrastructure](https://www.ovhcloud.com/es-es/enterprise/products/hosted-private-cloud/) to receive login credentials - A user account with access to vSphere (created in the OVHcloud Control Panel) ## Instructions :::warning Before proceeding with this type of change, we recommend a full backup or a clone of the virtual machine. ::: ### Windows VM In the vSphere interface menu, go to the `Hosts & Clusters ` dashboard. ![MENU](/images/hosted-private-cloud/powered-by-vmware/extend-disk/en01dash.png) On the left side, navigate to the VM you wish to modify, right click on it and select `Edit Settings `. ![EDIT](/images/hosted-private-cloud/powered-by-vmware/extend-disk/en02vm.png) Find the disk you are extending and modify the size value as needed (in our case, we changed the value from 80 to 100 GB). Click `OK `. ![EDIT](/images/hosted-private-cloud/powered-by-vmware/extend-disk/en03hdd.png) You can verify the change was applied in your recent tasks view. ![EDIT](/images/hosted-private-cloud/powered-by-vmware/extend-disk/en04task.png) Log on the VM and go to the "Disk Management" console. One simple way to do it is to right click on "Start" and select `Disk Management `. ![WIN](/images/hosted-private-cloud/powered-by-vmware/extend-disk/en05start.png) In the management console, you can see there is 20GB of unallocated space, corresponding to the space added to the virtual disk previously. ![WIN](/images/hosted-private-cloud/powered-by-vmware/extend-disk/en06unallocated.png) Right-click the existing logical disk and select `Extend Volume `. ![WIN](/images/hosted-private-cloud/powered-by-vmware/extend-disk/en07extend.png) Click `Next ` in the first wizard window. In the second window, the whole available space will be selected by default. It can be modified if needed. Click `Next `. Click `Finish ` in the last window. ![WIN](/images/hosted-private-cloud/powered-by-vmware/extend-disk/en08wiz.png) You can now see your disk fully extended and available. ![WIN](/images/hosted-private-cloud/powered-by-vmware/extend-disk/en09done.png) ### Linux VM :::info For Linux VMs, we'll use a partition utility. There are many available products and we do not recommend any over the others. Our use of [GParted LiveCD](http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php) is in no way an endorsement. For creating an ISO library and mounting an ISO to a VM, refer to [How to connect an ISO image to a VM](/es/guides/hosted-private-cloud/powered-by-vmware/connect-iso-to-vm.md). ::: In the vSphere interface menu, go to the `Hosts & Clusters ` dashboard. ![MENU](/images/hosted-private-cloud/powered-by-vmware/extend-disk/en01dash.png) On the left side, navigate to the VM you wish to modify, right-click it and select `Edit Settings `. ![EDIT](/images/hosted-private-cloud/powered-by-vmware/extend-disk/en10vm.png) Connect the utility ISO to your VM ([How to connect an ISO image to a VM](/es/guides/hosted-private-cloud/powered-by-vmware/connect-iso-to-vm.md) ). Find the disk you are expanding and modify the size value as needed (in our case, we changed the value from 20 to 70 GB). ![EDIT](/images/hosted-private-cloud/powered-by-vmware/extend-disk/en11hdd.png) In the `VM Options ` tab, check the "During the next boot, force entry into the BIOS setup screen" box so you can boot on the partition utility. Click `OK `. ![EDIT](/images/hosted-private-cloud/powered-by-vmware/extend-disk/en12bios.png) You can verify the change was applied in your recent tasks view. ![EDIT](/images/hosted-private-cloud/powered-by-vmware/extend-disk/en13task.png) Boot (or reboot) the VM and start the partition utiliy. _Refer to the software developer documentation to boot and get to the management console._ In the management console, you can see there is 50GB of unallocated space, corresponding to the space added to the virtual disk previously. ![LIN](/images/hosted-private-cloud/powered-by-vmware/extend-disk/en14unallocated.png) Right-click the existing logical volume and select `Resize/Move `. ![LIN](/images/hosted-private-cloud/powered-by-vmware/extend-disk/en15extend.png) Drag the right arrow to select the whole available space or type 0 in the "Free space following" field. Click `Resize/Move `. ![LIN](/images/hosted-private-cloud/powered-by-vmware/extend-disk/en16wiz.png) Click the green checkmark to apply all operations. ![LIN](/images/hosted-private-cloud/powered-by-vmware/extend-disk/en17apply.png) Click `Apply ` to confirm. ![LIN](/images/hosted-private-cloud/powered-by-vmware/extend-disk/en18confirm.png) Click `Close ` when done. ![LIN](/images/hosted-private-cloud/powered-by-vmware/extend-disk/en19close.png) You can now see your volume contains the unallocated space. We still need to apply the space to the disk. ![LIN](/images/hosted-private-cloud/powered-by-vmware/extend-disk/en20disk.png) Right-click the existing disk and select `Resize/Move `. ![LIN](/images/hosted-private-cloud/powered-by-vmware/extend-disk/en21extend.png) Drag the right arrow to select the whole available space or type 0 in the "Free space following" field. Click `Resize `. ![LIN](/images/hosted-private-cloud/powered-by-vmware/extend-disk/en22wiz.png) Click the green checkmark to apply all operations. ![LIN](/images/hosted-private-cloud/powered-by-vmware/extend-disk/en23apply.png) Click `Apply ` to confirm. ![LIN](/images/hosted-private-cloud/powered-by-vmware/extend-disk/en18confirm.png) Click `Close ` when done. ![LIN](/images/hosted-private-cloud/powered-by-vmware/extend-disk/en19close.png) You can now see your vitual disk is extended and ready for use. ![LIN](/images/hosted-private-cloud/powered-by-vmware/extend-disk/en24done.png) ## Go further Join our community of users on [https://community.ovh.com/en/](https://community.ovh.com/en/).