Problem with VM on ESXi6 - Tried to expand VMDK with snapshot

Hi folks,

Getting stuck on what I thought would be a simple task. I attempted to expand a volume on a store from 240GB to 350GB. I executed the command in ssh vmkfstools -X 350GB CAS-SQL-02-Vista-000001.vmdk. It seemed to work but the disk size did not change inside Vsphere. I started looking up issues and it was mentioned that doing this with snapshots is bad...

I then attempted to delete the single parent snapshot from the VM. However the disk then reverted to 40GB in size and cannot start due to "The capacity of the parent virtual disk and the capacity of the child disk are different.

Can I get a little guidance on how to correct this? It's kinda an emergency...

Thanks!

I started following this post but I'm not sure if it applies.

Getting error: The capacity of the parent virtual disk and the capacity of the child disk are different (67).

CAS-SQL-02-Vista.vmdk

# Disk DescriptorFile

version=1

encoding="UTF-8"

CID=98d30ec0

parentCID=ffffffff

isNativeSnapshot="no"

createType="vmfs"

# Extent description

RW 734003200 VMFS "CAS-SQL-02-Vista-flat.vmdk"

# The Disk Data Base

#DDB

ddb.adapterType = "lsilogic"

ddb.geometry.cylinders = "45689"

ddb.geometry.heads = "255"

ddb.geometry.sectors = "63"

ddb.longContentID = "8405a2266d61df0a05d92e067de65ca3"

ddb.thinProvisioned = "0"

ddb.toolsVersion = "8394"

ddb.uuid = "60 00 C2 96 c0 9c 54 db-55 2f 6f eb 95 b3 74 95"

ddb.virtualHWVersion = "8"

[root@CASSELLESX-01:/vmfs/volumes/551efb4a-013401c2-43af-d4ae5266c08e/CAS-SQL-02-Vista] ls -s

98141184 CAS-SQL-02-Vista-000001-delta.vmdk      1024 vmware-15.log

     0 CAS-SQL-02-Vista-000001.vmdk        2048 vmware-16.log

367001600 CAS-SQL-02-Vista-flat.vmdk       3072 vmware-17.log

  1024 CAS-SQL-02-Vista.nvram              1024 vmware-18.log

     0 CAS-SQL-02-Vista.vmdk               1024 vmware-19.log

     0 CAS-SQL-02-Vista.vmsd               1024 vmware-20.log

     8 CAS-SQL-02-Vista.vmx                1024 vmware.log

     8 CAS-SQL-02-Vista.vmxf