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Your are a GOD! - a living oracle - a hero - a savior.<br />
From now on you will be known as Sir Cliff. Stand up an receive your reconition.<br />
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Ohh and a nice weekend
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Your are a GOD! - a living oracle - a hero - a savior.
From now on you will be known as Sir Cliff. Stand up an receive your reconition.

Ohh and a nice weekend

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I have a problem with a virtual server with a dynamic expanding disk which does NOT expand.<br />
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I have an installation of an SBS2011 running virtual on a Server 2008R2 with the hyper-v role.<br />
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My SBS is configured with an extra VHD disk for use for Exchange. This disk is a standard 127 GB dynamic disk.<br />
When I could see that the data was growing rapidly I used the Edit Disk tool within the Hyper V Manager to expand this disk to 250 GB.<br />
My problem is that even if I can see inside the disk tool that this vhd disk should expand to 250 GB it dosn't.<br />
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Any suggestions ? :-)
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I have a problem with a virtual server with a dynamic expanding disk which does NOT expand.

I have an installation of an SBS2011 running virtual on a Server 2008R2 with the hyper-v role.

My SBS is configured with an extra VHD disk for use for Exchange. This disk is a standard 127 GB dynamic disk.
When I could see that the data was growing rapidly I used the Edit Disk tool within the Hyper V Manager to expand this disk to 250 GB.
My problem is that even if I can see inside the disk tool that this vhd disk should expand to 250 GB it dosn't.

Any suggestions ? :-)

Dynamic expanding disk from Hyper-V does not expand

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, based on the Microsoft Vista codebase, is the last 32-bit server operating system released by Microsoft. It has a number of versions, including including Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, HPC Server, Itanium and Storage; new features included server core installation and Hyper-V.

Windows Server 2008

Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.

Virtualization

Small Business Server (SBS) is a line of server operating systems targeted at small businesses by bundling the operating system with a number of other Microsoft products that would normally need to be purchased or licensed separately. The most notable inclusions are Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint and ISA/TMG (Microsoft's firewall and proxy server).

Hyper-V is a native hypervisor; it can create virtual machines on x86-64 systems and supersedes Windows Virtual PC as the hardware virtualization component of the client editions of Windows NT. A server computer running Hyper-V can be configured to expose individual virtual machines to one or more networks. Hyper-V Server supports remote access via Remote Desktop Connection. Administration and configuration of the host OS and the guest virtual machines is generally done over the network.