Increase storage for Ms Exchange 2013

VMwareVSphere20 · ‎10-11-2015

Experts,

My scenario is as follows...

Hardware : HP Proliant Server with RAID 5 with 3 physical Disks and 32GB RAM

Software : VMware ESXi 5

VM's : Exchange 2013 running on Windows 2012 Server with all roles installed on this server & Windows 2008 Additional Domain Controller.

Now the question is Exchange 2013 is running out of storage. How to increase?

Note: Am already in process of procuring 3 Physical disks.

Your speedy help is highly appreciated.

Bain

PemoK · ‎10-12-2015

hi do the following:

shutdown VM

shutdown esxi host

insert additional diks

power up and go to intelligent provisioning

start hp array config utility and add the disks to the raid

extend logical drive

boot the esxi up and resize the datastore

extend the vmdk and windows FS

hope this helps

VMwareVSphere20 · ‎10-12-2015

Thanks for reply.

How to resize the data store? and extend the vmdk file?

And in this process will there be any data loss for the Exchange VM?

PemoK · ‎10-15-2015

check this youtube clips for guide:

extending datastore:

resize guest os disk: