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Thanks I Am going to try option 2, I would normally do 4 but then I would have to do another V2V for the renaming to be right
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Thanks I Am going to try option 2, I would normally do 4 but then I would have to do another V2V for the renaming to be right

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Actually we are going to go with the V2V option, I will be doing this this weekend. &nbsp;I will close the ticket when all goes well
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Actually we are going to go with the V2V option, I will be doing this this weekend.  I will close the ticket when all goes well

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I have a windows 2003 vm &nbsp;on a esxi 5.1 host with vcenter in which the C and D drive share the same disk. &nbsp;I would like to split this up so each partition gets its own vmdk file/hard disk. &nbsp; &nbsp;Does anyone know how to do this without me loosing any data?
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I have a windows 2003 vm  on a esxi 5.1 host with vcenter in which the C and D drive share the same disk.  I would like to split this up so each partition gets its own vmdk file/hard disk.    Does anyone know how to do this without me loosing any data?

windows 2003  on vmware esxi 5.1 move boot partition to a new drive

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).

Windows Server 2003

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.