Resizing the Replicated VM Disk - Caution!!!!!

• On the recovery site, rename the folder in which the virtual machine is replicated to. This prevents the replicated data from removing when removing replication from the virtual machine.
• Disable replication of the virtual machine you want to resize.
• At the protected site, increase the size of the desired virtual machine disk file.
• At the recovery site, log in to an ESXi host that can access the datastore in which the virtual machine is replicated to.
• Run this command to change the directory to the datastore and folder in which the replicated disk is stored:

           cd /vmfs/volumes/virtual_machine_datastore/virtual_machine_folder/

• Run this command to increase the size of the replicated vmdk using vmkfstools:

          vmkfstools –X 50G virtual_machine.vmdk

          Note: The preceding command increases the size of a virtual disk to 50 GB.

• At the recovery site, restore the virtual machine folder to the original name.
• Reconfigure the replication for the virtual machine. Ensure to select the Specify datastore folder option to select the folder in which the replicated disk is stored.You can see a prompt that shows:

         A file with the name ‘[<datastore>] <folder>/<filename> already exists. Press Yes to use file as an initial copy.

        Select Yes to use the already replicated disk as a seed. If you are using the Web Client, you must browse for the correct folder.