We have the following:
ESXi 5.0.0 build 1311175
vCenter Server 5.0.0 Build 455964
vSphere Client 5.0.5.0.0.37933
View Horizon 5.1.0 Build 704644
View Compose 3.0.0.691993
vShield Manager 5.0.2- 791471
VMware Tools version 8.6.15 Build 2495133
The Windows 7 image has 2 drives of interest:
C:\ OS (30GB Thin Provisioned)
D:\ user profile (10GB Independent Persistent disk)
The issue is the C drive is 30GB Thin Provision in total, with 6GB of free space. I have disabled the disk defrag, system restore is 3% (900MB).
The only thing that gets installed are the Windows updates on patch Tuesday. The programs we use are static they don't really change.
So no new installs of any kind except for updates to Java and Adobe. I install one piece of software once a year.
The users don't have rights to install software on their vPC.
I regularly run the disk cleanup for the C drive, but find that not much space is reclaimed.
I would like to expand the C drive of the 30GB but option is grayed out for the vPC (See attached screenshot).
I went into the VMware View Administrator to see if I can expand the C drive about unable to locate the area where I can expand it.
I do see the area where I can expand the persistent disk but not for the OS disk.
The plan was to expand the OS disk then recompose the specific desktop as the need arise.
Can you please advise if this is possible to expand the OS 30GB in VMware view?
Also this vPC's are from a Linked clone