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adding more drive space to the server
hello I have a server drive with letter F and that is now full. We use equologic SAN in our environment and I would like to add more space to this drive? is this possible and how can I do it with minimum disturbance.
Thank you.
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I am afraid it is not that simple as I am encountering the issue below:
I managed to increase the SAN and that wasn't the issue and I went to the Vcenter and increase the LUN capacity on the VMware exsi and that was find. I right clicked on the Guest VM and did edit settings but everything is greyed out.
I did shutdown the VM thinking that would enable me to increase the hard disk space but no it was still greyed out. I am now deleting all the snapshots for this VM and hoping to free some disk space.
Any other suggestions of how to increase the hard disk space on my guest VM?
I managed to increase the SAN and that wasn't the issue and I went to the Vcenter and increase the LUN capacity on the VMware exsi and that was find. I right clicked on the Guest VM and did edit settings but everything is greyed out.
I did shutdown the VM thinking that would enable me to increase the hard disk space but no it was still greyed out. I am now deleting all the snapshots for this VM and hoping to free some disk space.
Any other suggestions of how to increase the hard disk space on my guest VM?
This link explains how to do both. Increasing the space on the VM is towards the bottom 3rd.
http://www.ponjavic.com/wordpress/2014/01/10/add-space-to-a-windows-server-virtual-machine-by-extending-a-volume-on-an-equallogic-san-and-in-vmware-esxi/
http://www.ponjavic.com/wordpress/2014/01/10/add-space-to-a-windows-server-virtual-machine-by-extending-a-volume-on-an-equallogic-san-and-in-vmware-esxi/
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I saw that link earlier, My issue is the I can not provision the disk size of the VM because it is greyed out. On another note the I started to delete the snapshots and now it is stuck at 99%
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- If the new volume size is beyond 2TB you need to convert the FS partition within the OS from MBR to GPT first (take a volume snapshot first)
- In GroupManager increase the volume to the new size. The "wizard" will ask you to create a snapshot and please answer with "yes"
- In Windows storage manager press "reload/refresh disks" and than select the partition and use the "increase volume" option. Check free space within the windows explorer
- Remove the EQL snapshot
Instead of using Windows storage manager also diskpart can be used. There is no downtime needed.
Edit: YouTube Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLPWRsCyjdA