Matt
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Server 2012 - Can I extend disk over 2048?
H iall,
I have a VM with a basic NTFS disk that I desperately need to extend but I cant. Is there anything I can do ?
I have a VM with a basic NTFS disk that I desperately need to extend but I cant. Is there anything I can do ?
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Addition to my earlier update, the best approach would be converting basic disk to dynamic. You can follow this procedure https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731274.aspx
Hope this helps.
Hope this helps.
the best approach would be converting basic disk to dynamic
if the user is hitting a vmware limit of 2tb then converting to dynamic disk is pointless
andrew's suggestion seems sufficient - if the user has the supported environment
Support for virtual machine disks larger than 2 TB in VMware ESXi 5.5
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its a depude folder for backup. Looks like im going to have to delete it then.
Is the drive has unallocated space? if so, you can extend the volume from File and Storage services>>Volumes.
If you don't have any unallocated space and any SAN attached on these VM's then it's not straight forward. You need to create LUN and allocate some space to datastore, then it will come as unallocated space which you can try to extend.