Resize the System drive

[Abhare]

Techies,

I only know one way of resizing the C Drive(system drive) that is v2v conversion.

Because when we do v2v. it asks for resizing the disks.

whether Anybody have idea how can we do it without lengthy and time consuming process of v2v.

please share.

regards,

abhi

[vmroyale]

Hello.

Check out Dell's extpart utility. It works great.

Good Luck!

[rebootuser · Accepted solution]

Hi Abhare.The way I do this is to:

1) Shutdown original vm with the system drive you wish to expand

2) Open original vm proprieties and expand disk of original system, and note which LUN it's stored on

3) Open original vm proprieties and remove system drive from vm (not delete, just remove)

4) Open the proprieties of a second vm, add existing vm disk to system (i.e. navigate LUNs to find original vms system disk)

5) Rescan disks in second vm

6) Open a command prompt in 2nd vm and use the diskpart list volume / diskpart select volume # (where # is number of old vms system disk) extend

7) Shutdown 2nd vm and remove disk

😎 Power up original vm and hey presto, an extended disk!

Hope that makes some sort of sense!

Regards,

Owen

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[ThompsG]

Similar solution to rebootuser however we use a ISO with WinPE loaded. Boot the vm from this and then diskpart to complete the extension.

Works very well.