In the vSphere Client, my vCenter server, a Windows 2008 R2 virtual machine, shows under its Summary tab that the "Provisioned" space for it is 88.11GB; its "Not-shared Storage" is 56.24GB; its "Used" storage is also 56.24GB. In the Resources section under the 'Storage' and 'Status' list of the datastores this VM is using, it shows 2 datastores: Prod1 and Prod2. Under the 'Edit Settings' menu for this VM, for Hard disk 1 it shows the provisioned size as being 40GB on the 'Prod2' datastore. The CD/DVD drive is set to 'Client Device' and it does not seem to be connected to an ISO on any other data store. This is an HA environment with DRS. If you go into the VM guest OS itself, inside the Storage Manager and also in Explorer, it shows only one drive (C:) which is 40GB. That drive is down to a little over 3GB remaining and I don't understand why the numbers and allocation do not match up, and I also need to extended this drive if possible. This machine, I believe, was deployed from a cloned template of a server (which was edited to have more memory at least but I think I left it set to 40GB and need more). Why does it show 88.11GB/56.24GB as provisioned and used? What is the best approach here?
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