resized vm

itdaddy

hey guys

I want to resize the vm..here is my plan.

1. power off vm
2. edit size of vm D drive from 40 GB to 100GB
3. power on vm
4. install a partition manager on it
5. increase size of D drive with this.

sound good of is there something I am missing?

thanks

MentholMoose

It looks fine, but step 4 is unnecessary. You can just use diskpart.
How to extend a data volume in Windows Server 2003, in Windows XP, in Windows 2000, and in Windows Server 2008

astorrs

If its the system/boot partition you want to grow and the guest is Windows Vista/Server 2008 or later you can skip the powering off part and do it live. Just edit the VM settings, grow the VMDK disk size, save it, open Disk Management on the server and right-click Extend the volume.

itdaddy

sweeet thanks men! appreciate it. just wantedto make sure
I didnt have any snags super yeah I have to increase our WSUS server

what size do you think a WSUS server should be? 40 GB will up fast in 2 years..is that normal? was going to push it to 80GB or 100GB?

blargoe

The powering off part shouldn't be necessary for you since it's the D drive. Use Diskpart.

My WSUS server is pushing 100GB... it just depends on how many different Microsoft products you are supporting and which updates you are approving.

MentholMoose

blargoe wrote: »

My WSUS server is pushing 100GB... it just depends on how many different Microsoft products you are supporting and which updates you are approving.

Don't forget languages. Selecting only the languages in use will save a lot of disk space.

MrAgent

100gigs is not a lot for a WSUS server. I cant tell you how many times I had to increase the disk size of our WSUS VM.

itdaddy

thank guys..yeah crap I turned it back on and it took up easily 14 GB more
now I have 26GB left....crap! looks like it might get its own stand along 1TB mirror hahahaha;)

Is there any way I can delete old stuff or clean it up?

nimrod.sixty9

itdaddy wrote: »

thank guys..yeah crap I turned it back on and it took up easily 14 GB more
now I have 26GB left....crap! looks like it might get its own stand along 1TB mirror hahahaha;)

Is there any way I can delete old stuff or clean it up?

Server cleanup wizard under options.

How do you do this to the primary partition (c: ) ?

On my WSUS under Disk Management I have Disk 0 - C:50GB NTFS then 100GB Unallocated.

astorrs

nimrod.sixty9 wrote: »

Server cleanup wizard under options.

How do you do this to the primary partition (c: ) ?

On my WSUS under Disk Management I have Disk 0 - C:50GB NTFS then 100GB Unallocated.

If it's 2008 you can just right-click on it and extend the volume, if it's 2003 or earlier use a bootable CD like GParted Live (bootable ISO) to extend it.

MentholMoose

You can also boot from a Windows Vista/7/2008 install disk, use the repair option to get a command prompt, and follow the link I posted to use diskpart.

Zaits

Another trick to get the primary partition to increase that has the OS installed on is power down the VM the vmdk is apart of and attach that vmdk file to another windows VM. Then increase the drive size and attach that vmdk as the d:\ drive on the new VM. After you size the drive accordingly remove it from the second vm and power on the original vm.

vCole

astorrs wrote: »

If it's 2008 you can just right-click on it and extend the volume, if it's 2003 or earlier use a bootable CD like GParted Live (bootable ISO) to extend it.

+1 - This is exactly what I do and it works flawlessly.

jibbajabba

astorrs wrote: »

If it's 2008 you can just right-click on it and extend the volume, if it's 2003 or earlier use a bootable CD like GParted Live (bootable ISO) to extend it.

Doesn't gparted use sector based resizing though, which can take flippin hours ?!? Never used it though - so I might have the wrong end of the stick ..

For 2003 I simply boot up with a 2008 CD and use the command prompt under the repair options to use diskpart..

vCole

Gomjaba wrote: »

Doesn't gparted use sector based resizing though, which can take flippin hours ?!? Never used it though - so I might have the wrong end of the stick ..

For 2003 I simply boot up with a 2008 CD and use the command prompt under the repair options to use diskpart..

Just extended a VM from 60GB to 100GB and it took ~2 minutes using gparted.

nimrod.sixty9

Used Win7 disc and booted to the command prompt and used Diskpart. Worked perfectly, WSUS is now functioning perfectly!

Thanks guys!