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Intel233
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‎09-06-2013 12:46 PM

Resize Hard Drive

Right now I have a 30gig Hard drive running Windows Server 2008.   I am out of space.  Can I just edit the drive size in Vcenter from 30 to 40?  I know I would have to go into Disk Management and rescan/resize the drive.  I just want to make sure I can do it while its live and no data will get lost.

It is Vsphere 4.1

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a_p_
Leadership
Leadership
‎09-06-2013 12:48 PM

Yes, that should work online unless the VM has active snapshots (in which case the disk size is grayed out in the GUI).

André

leonhardtla
Expert
Expert
‎09-06-2013 10:32 PM

Exactly, you can do it online but make sure not to have snapshots. Then you have to go to Windows Disk Manager 2008 to do a extended .

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