You can adjust the amount of storage allocated to a virtual machine at any time. You do not have to power off the virtual machine to adjust the storage.

See Migrate a Virtual Machine Disk between Storage Tiers for information about adjusting the type of storage.

Note

You cannot change both the storage tier and the storage amount at the same time. Change one setting, save your changes, then change the other.

Procedure
1

Display the virtual machine.

a

In the navigation pane on the left, navigate to vCloud Air Services.

b

Click Cloud Instances and double-click the cloud instance that contains the virtual machine.

c

In the Related Objects tab, click the Virtual Machines tab.

2

Double-click the virtual machine and, in the Summary tab, view the current settings under VM Settings.

3

Click Edit Settings.

4

In the Edit VM Settings dialog box, under Storage, select Edit Size of Disks.

5

Adjust the amount of storage for each hard disk.

Note

The primary hard disk must have, at minimum, the amount of storage specified in the template.

6

Click OK.