After increasing a virtual machine VMDK size you need to also resize this partition in Windows.
This can be completed remotely using PowerShell. There are various methods to run this but I prefer to use “Server Management” and admin the machines from here. you can run “PowerShell” on a remote session to run the script below.
This process will increase the C:\ partition to use all space that has been allocated by VMware. (Replace -DriveLetter with the required drive)
There are various methods (this is just one of them)
Update-HostStorageCache $size = Get-PartitionSupportedSize -DriveLetter C Write-Output $size Resize-Partition -DriveLetter C -Size $size.SizeMax -Verbose Write-Output "Drive Extension Complete!" Exit-PSSession