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what is the ID drive? you can extend the size of a vmdk and then within the operating system (2008 onwards) by going into diskmgmt.msc and extending the drive.
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what is the ID drive? you can extend the size of a vmdk and then within the operating system (2008 onwards) by going into diskmgmt.msc and extending the drive.

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Need to extend &nbsp;ID drive size &nbsp;of my VM without downtime ? [VM OS:win 2k3/2k8]<br />
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best way to extend id or to convert to scsi ?
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Need to extend  ID drive size  of my VM without downtime ? [VM OS:win 2k3/2k8]

best way to extend id or to convert to scsi ?

To extend ID drive of VM

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