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THANKS so much! I knew it was easy...I just could not remember how
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THANKS so much! I knew it was easy...I just could not remember how

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Your welcome. Have a nice day!
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I know this can be answered quick. I cannot for the life of me remember. I have done this before but it has been 4 years. I have been wearing a Telephony and CCNA hat for a while. NOW, as a Server Admin I need how to do a simple hard drive expansion. I have a windows 2012 r2 server. The E drive 100GB and almost full. It is data that I would like to leave in place. I went to VMware 5.5 and expanded the drive to 150GB. NOW, I cannot remember the next step. I should know this. Is it a simple reboot? When I go to Windows Storage I do not see the added space. What is next?
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I know this can be answered quick. I cannot for the life of me remember. I have done this before but it has been 4 years. I have been wearing a Telephony and CCNA hat for a while. NOW, as a Server Admin I need how to do a simple hard drive expansion. I have a windows 2012 r2 server. The E drive 100GB and almost full. It is data that I would like to leave in place. I went to VMware 5.5 and expanded the drive to 150GB. NOW, I cannot remember the next step. I should know this. Is it a simple reboot? When I go to Windows Storage I do not see the added space. What is next?

expand server drive 2012r2 vmware 5.5

Windows Server 2012 is the server version of Windows 8 and the successor to Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows Server 2012 is the first version of Windows Server to have no support for Itanium-based computers since Windows NT 4.0. Windows Server 2012, now in its second release (Windows Server 2012 Release 2) includes Foundation, Essentials, Standard and Datacenter, and does not support IA-32 or IA-64 processors.

Windows Server 2012

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.