Malaysia VMware Communities » 2003 http://malaysiavm.com/blog Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:50:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 How To Resize Windows 2003 Server Virtual Disk on VMware ESX http://malaysiavm.com/blog/how-to-resize-windows-2003-server-virtual-disk-on-vmware-esx/ http://malaysiavm.com/blog/how-to-resize-windows-2003-server-virtual-disk-on-vmware-esx/#comments Tue, 13 Jan 2009 03:39:43 +0000 jlchannel http://malaysiavm.com/blog/?p=772 The following guide explain “How to resize Windows 2003 server (boot system) virtual disk on VMware ESX”.

Preliminary Note

  • Operating System: Windows 2003
  • Hostname: Win07
  • Initial drive c: hard disk space: 12 GB
  • Allocate additional hard disk space: 8GB
  • Total size(resize) = 20GB
  • VMware ESX version 3.5 update 3
  • GPart LiveCD 0.3.9-4

Note: We’re NOT warranty and response for any disk corruption. Please make sure you have BACKUP before proceed.

Here you go step by step:

  1. Power off Windows 2003 virtual machine.
  2. Resize existing hard disk size from 12Gb to 20Gb.

    3. Resize Disk

  3. Power on Windows 2003 virtual machine and make sure you can see additional disk allocated.

    4. Resize Disk

  4. Once again, restart Windows 2003 virtual machine and boot with GPart LiveCD(default settings).

    5. GPart Live CD

  5. Select ‘Don’t touch keymap’ and press ‘ENTER’.
  6. Press ’33′ and ‘ENTER’.
  7. Please ‘ENTER’ to continue.
  8. Right click on GParted menu -> click ‘Resize/Move’.
  9. Use your mouse and scroll/resize /dev/sda1 to maximum size.

    10. GPart Resize

  10. Click ‘Resize/Move’.
  11. Click ‘Apply’ twice.
  12. Click ‘Close’.

    13. GPart Resize

  13. Restart Windows 2003 virtual machine again and I would suggest you run Windows checkdisk(chkdsk) during boot up.

    14. Chkdsk

  14. Go to Windows Disk Management tools.

    15. Resize Windows 2003 done

  15. Gongratulation if you can see 20Gb drive C: available.

Any feedback or comment are welcome and I hope this guide is helpful.

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Microsoft said they will support the windows machine which run on virtual server, but they refuse to support the VM which run on VMware. As consumer point of view, that will really as a show stopper to a lot of the potential customer to host thier production environment with more windows server in the future.

Compare Microsoft with Novell SUSE Linux, Novell really do a great job providing full support to the customer who have subscript for support every year, and they will support any virtualization platform that you will host your SUSE Linux.

As Linux as strong growth from time to time, this announcement from Microsoft will not drive up the market percentage they have on the virtualization as well as servers products. It will just create another concern to all the users when they do want to implement a new project, and Microsoft will not be the 1st choice mostly.

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