If your server is 2008 or 2008 R2 it's even easier, expand drive in vSphere client than in Windows go to disk management, right click the drive and expand. No rebooting or downtime required.
Going down is size is a different story... -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kalnitsky, Yury Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 6:58 PM To: A list for BES Admin's to discuss issues, etc. Subject: Re: [Bes-admins] BPS -> BES upgrade tips " Ironically, it is easier to reconfigure a CPU for a VM than change the size of a virtual hard disk." - Add extent to the drive you want to expand using properties and then try using gparted boot ISO to do the resizing. Work for me every time! http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Art Alexion Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 3:35 PM To: A list for BES Admin's to discuss issues, etc. Subject: Re: [Bes-admins] BPS -> BES upgrade tips Yes. That's good news. Thanks. Ironically, it is easier to reconfigure a CPU for a VM than change the size of a virtual hard disk. On 01/14/2010 Pierre Duhamel wrote: > >> I guess my first question is going to be whether 20 GB is big > enough, probably ~50-60 users? > > It should be BUT that will depend on how far back you want to keep > your log files. > > >> >>Can I move parts of BES to D:? > > Once D: is added, you can change the logfiles so that they output to > D: instead of C: that alone will give C: plenty of breathing room. > Not sure if you can change/move anything else tho (besides the > logfiles) > > Hope this helps. -- Art Alexion MIS/Central Office Support Resources for Human Development _______________________________________________ Bes-Admins mailing list [email protected] http://www.dataoutages.com/mailman/listinfo/bes-admins http://www.dataoutages.com http://www.dataoutagenews.com RSS Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Bes-admins --------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Bes-Admins mailing list [email protected] http://www.dataoutages.com/mailman/listinfo/bes-admins http://www.dataoutages.com http://www.dataoutagenews.com RSS Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Bes-admins --------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Consumer-voted "Best Pizza Chain in America" 2003-2009 _______________________________________________ Bes-Admins mailing list [email protected] http://www.dataoutages.com/mailman/listinfo/bes-admins http://www.dataoutages.com http://www.dataoutagenews.com RSS Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Bes-admins ---------------------------------
