Knowledge Base

If you used fdisk from the command line to manage partitions, then you must restart the vmware-serverd process. If you don't restart it, you are unable to manage the disk partitions using the VMware Management Interface for up to fifteen minutes.

By default, the vmware-serverd process reports disk partition configuration changes every fifteen minutes. To view and manage disk partitions immediately, you must restart the vmware-serverd process by logging on to the service console as root and issuing the command killall -9 vmware-serverd.

Note: The vmware-serverd process restarts automatically when it receives requests from any of its clients. You may be running vmware-ccagent instead of vmware-serverd. The correct command to kill vmware-ccagent is killall -9 vmware-ccagent.