Extending disks on a Windows 2008 R2 Server

[samuk]

Why am i not able to do this? option is greyed out when i edit  the VM..?

Do i need to shut the server down to be able to extend drive?

[CaptainJF]

Yes, you have to.

Or without shuting down the Vm, you can add a new disk live and extend the logical drive on it.

[idle-jam]

windows 2008 r2 you can do a hot expand. even on windows 2003 the data drive can be hot expanded.

[CaptainJF]

Yes true, but it's depend on your host licence type.

With standard, you can't.

[vmroyale]

Hello.

Make sure you don't have any snapshots on this VM, as this will prevent you from growing the disk(s).

Good Luck!

[CaptainJF]

argh, yeah.

Ok, I need a coffee...