Comments on: How To Resize Windows 2003 Server Virtual Disk on VMware ESX

By: Wesley

Wesley — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:35:40 +0000

Dean: You are the man! I have been looking for a tool that would allow me to extend the C: drive boot partition after adding some space through VMWare ESXi and this WORKED! thank you so much for your input!

By: tommy

tommy — Thu, 13 May 2010 09:51:13 +0000

In almost every VMware system, it doesn’t have the function about disk partition management itself. An article about “How to Manage Window Disk Partition in VMware and VMDK?” http://www.extend-partition.com/resource/disk-partition-vmware-and-vmdk.html

By: luck

luck — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 03:42:45 +0000

As I know, partition magic doesn’t support Windows Server 2003. There are other tools, such as diskpart, partition master, GParted and so on. They all can resize the partitions on Server 2003. GParted is complex to resize. I use partition master, it is easy to resize Windows Server 2003 virtual disk on VMware(http://www.partition-tool.com/resource/vmware-server-partition-resize.htm), no need to reboot (http://www.partition-tool.com/easeus-partition-manager/extend-ntfs-system-partition-without-reboot.htm).

By: Roy Smith

Roy Smith — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:36:23 +0000

I have tried this in a production environment and it works well. After all, I don’t imagine there would be much harm in using this if you have taken a snapshot before hand?

By: Mortimer

Mortimer — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:08:56 +0000

You can very well expand system partitions with ExtPart with no downtime at all.

By: craig

craig — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:24:31 +0000

The solution sounds good, but I will not take risk to do this on my operating system partition. For dev and test machine I may consider that. Thanks for sharing.

By: Roy Smith

Roy Smith — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:28:34 +0000

If you have upgraded to vSphere then this process is now much easier. I have found an alternative way to do this here:

http://www.jjclements.co.uk/index.php/2009/09/14/vmware-esx-vsphere-resize-disk

By: LeongKO

LeongKO — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 02:47:23 +0000

Hi Craig ,
The software is license .

Thanks
LeongKO

By: craig

craig — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:20:46 +0000

is this software consider free?

By: LeongKO

LeongKO — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 03:29:07 +0000

HI All ,
recently i try this software called acronis disk director server version 10 to extend my C:\ drive partition without reboot the server.

Thanks
LeongKO