Grow a Linux disk after extending a VMDK
Extending the virtual disk is the easy part. This walks the whole chain in the guest: rescan, growpart, pvresize, lvextend and the filesystem step, which is xfs_growfs on RHEL and resize2fs on Ubuntu.
Linux for the Windows and VMware admin: the commands, files and procedures you need when a task drops you into a shell.
Extending the virtual disk is the easy part. This walks the whole chain in the guest: rescan, growpart, pvresize, lvextend and the filesystem step, which is xfs_growfs on RHEL and resize2fs on Ubuntu.
The full path from a Windows workstation to a working Linux session: checking the OpenSSH client, the first connection and the fingerprint prompt, moving to keys, the config file, copying files, and reading the error when it refuses you.