Windows 2003 has diskpart built in to expand volumes...

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Stefan Jafs <[email protected]> wrote:

> It' easy enough o add the space in vSphere client by editing the vDisk but
> how you get that extra available space in W2k3? I was looking at other ways
> than Dell's extpart.
> Thanks I'll look at dispart.
>
> Thanks
> SJ
>   On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Damien Solodow <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>>  Are you talking about expanding the virtual drive at the VM level or
>> expanding the partition at the guest level?
>>
>> The first can be done via the vSphere client, and the latter with
>> diskpart.
>>
>>
>>
>> DAMIEN SOLODOW
>>
>> Systems Engineer
>>
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>> HARRISON COLLEGE
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>>
>>
>> *From:* Stefan Jafs [mailto:[email protected]]
>> *Sent:* Monday, May 16, 2011 1:16 PM
>> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
>> *Subject:* Adding Drive space in vSphere client
>>
>>
>>
>> I have a few virtual machines that I need to add more disk space. These
>> are NOT boot drives and OS is Windows 2003.
>>
>> What is the "best" method? Dell used to have a utility but it's pulled and
>> apparently not "safe"?
>>
>>
>>
>> That's why I'm asking.
>>
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