set-harddisk +10GB

[tdubb123]

any idea how I can add +10GB to existing "hard disk 1"  without having to know the current capacity?

[LucD]

Try like this

Get-VM -Name MyVM | Get-HardDisk -Name 'Hard disk 1' |

ForEach-Object -Process {

   Set-HardDisk -HardDisk $_ -CapacityGB (10 + $_.CapacityGB) -Confirm:$false

}

[tdubb123]

Hi Luc

when i tried this it only made a 1GB to 10GB instead of 11GB

this is my command

Get-VM -Name test | Get-HardDisk -Name 'Hard disk 2' | Set-HardDisk -CapacityGB (10 + $_.CApacitygb)

[LucD]

That will not work, you can only reference the pipeline object ($_) in a script block.

See my previous answer.

[tdubb123]

thank Luc. That works.

however when i add resizeguestpartition to it. seems to have frozen up

[LucD]

Did you see the warning on the help entry for the Set-Harddisk cmdlet?

"Note: This functionality is deprecated and is not functional on the currently supported guest operating systems. Resizing guest disks works only on Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. "

That might be causing the hang.

[tdubb123]

I got this working only on the first VM on the servers.txt list when expanding the  E drive. but failedon the second.

any idea whats going on?

If I go back and manually run

invoke-command -computername server2 -scriptblock $scriptblock -credential $creds

it works fine

[LucD]

You get that error when the used space on the partition is higher than the value you pass on the Size parameter.