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Resize virtual machine's system volume
I have performed this action several times with windows server 2003 guests in our environment. Remove the drive, add it to another guest, expand the space in vc or by running vmkfstools, login and extend using diskpart. Occassionally, diskpart will throw an error and not expand the disk (new space is visible in disk manager). The only way I was able to resolve it was to attach it to a windows 2000 guest and run diskpart from there. Anyone know why this would work sometimes and not others?
You can also use vConverter to point to source and destination and schedule the conversion. During the conversion (V2V) you can set it up for resize. This makes the process automated.
1) Shutdown the VM or target, whose C drive you want to extend
2) Select "Edit Settings"
3) Select "Hard Disk 1" and on Capacity section increase the "New Size" from 6 to 20 GB
4) Using another VM host that has Windows 2003 Server OS, attach targetname.vmdk as another hard drive
5) Reboot this host
6) Restart thehosy VM t
7) Open CMD prompt type "extpart c: 20480"8) Remove T drive
9) Reattach the drive to orginal target VM
ExtrPart from dell website:
http://ftp1.us.dell.com/app/ExtPart.exe
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Thanks for not giving any points. I will not answer any more of you questions going forward "roostercogburn"
Can't find the exact article.
See this link to stsrt:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923076
Error codes for diskpart:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/300415