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http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&; s=hea&fileid=83929&formatcnt=2&releaseid=R64398 From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 12:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Adding Drive space in vSphere client Cool. Woulda been nice to know a couple years ago J From: Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 1:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Adding Drive space in vSphere client I downloaded it from Dell's website, and it will extend a W2k3 or W2k boot volume live. The OP mentioned that he's heard it was "unsafe", but that has not been our experience. From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 1:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Adding Drive space in vSphere client Where does that come from? Is it part of open manage? And it will extend a boot volume live? From: Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 1:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Adding Drive space in vSphere client Or, as others have pointed out, use the Dell "extpart.exe" utility. It has never caused an issue for us the several years we've used it. From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 1:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Adding Drive space in vSphere client Starting with W2K8, diskpart can expand boot partitions too. But in, w2k3, if you're expanding the boot partition, you need to attach that drive to different server as a non-boot drive. From: Don Ely [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 12:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Adding Drive space in vSphere client 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 317.447.6033 (office) 317.217.6851 (fax) HARRISON COLLEGE 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"? 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