If a connection can be established, TMG will consider the link active.Īlthough, the IP addresses and the TCP port used for the verification cannot be configured directly from the management console, If you need to modify these settings, e.g. In the default setting, TMG checks the status of the ISP link by trying to establish a TCP connection on port 53 (DNS zone transfer) to a list* of root DNS server on a round robin basis. Howto reduce Dead/Available Link Detection Time out Frequency: Use the following vbs file,Ĭopy Paste the following code in notepad, and save it as TMG.VBS and edit it as per your requirement. I used MiniTool Partition Wizard Server Edition 7.1 which worked beautifully to complete the task without any hassle. Now power ON the guest machine, and increase the size as required, either using Windwos Disk Management tool or cmd. I had some good IBM hardware & it took around 1-2 minutes to increase the size from 60GB to 200GB.Īfter few minutes it will populate to ESXI client automatically. TMG.VMDK = File name which we want to expandĭepends on your hardware speed, it may take some time to complete the operation. vmdk file name & issue expand command against that file Navigate to folder where your guest VMDK file reside,.Login to ESXI Server via putty or any SSH client.I used below workaround & it worked perfectly for me. I tried another workaround but for some reasons, it didn’t worked in my case. As per Vmware documentation, you cannot increase IDE disk size. I installed this TMG in year 2012 & I was missing its patches / service packs therefore I was avoiding doing fresh installation. One of our guest machine which is acting as proxy/filter system (Forefront TMG 2010 ) for our users, its disk space was getting lower (as its total size was 60 GB only). We are using VMWARE Esxi 5.0 server hosting few VM guests.