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Expanding a Windows Server 2008 System partition on a HyperV Guest

Yeah, WOW, not a quick and easy process by any means!

Brad Turner - Sep 3, 2008

Yeah, WOW, not a quick and easy process by any means!

Good Info - Important Note: If you are dealing with a vm guest attached to a Hyper-V Cluster, You’ll need to use Failover Cluster Manager in Administration Tools on one of the Cluster Nodes - After making the change, go to a Command Prompt and enter the following:
diskpart
DISKPART> list
DISKPART> list volume
DISKPART> select volume #
DISKPART> extend
DISKPART> extend filesystem
You’ll need to run extend filesystem on ant 2008+ server regardless if it is in a Cluster or not…

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Expanding a Windows Server 2008 System partition on a HyperV Guest

While building out some virtual machines for our ILM 2 Beta 3 environment…

We setup a few virtual machines 64 bit Windows Server 2008 SP 1 (since SP 1 is built in to the RTM) running on HyperV. Everything is very slick! Except we only set aside 16 GB for the virtual disk for the system partition. Despite installing SQL, SharePoint, and ILM 2 to another drive the system partition quickly filled up, and didn’t have enough room for Visual Studio (even though I wanted to install it on another partition). All of these programs install a lot of stuff on the system partition no matter what I select. While moving the paging file freed up some space it wasn’t enough.

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