Expanding Windows Virtual Server Boot volume without shutting down the server

Purpose of this Post is to explain how to  expand the boot partition of a Wintel VMware server without shutting down the server . This is performed with the help of a  tool from Dell named as Extpart.exe 

Step by Step Details as follows

 

1) Current Disk space of  C Drive is 8 GB, As per below steps I am  increasing it to 10 GB

2) Login to Virtual Center console and Go to edit setting for respected server, 

The current size assigned for C is 8 GB

3) Increase the provisioned size as per the requirement  ( Here its increased to 10 GB from 8 GB)

4) Click Here to download Expart.exe . This is a tool from Dell to perform this disk  expansion

5) Copy this exe to the Server where we want to perform the drive expansion

6) Login to the server with Admin Id and go to exe location via CMD mode Syntax will be    expart.exe boot drive name:   Increase size in MB In this Demonstration syntax will be

extpart.exe c: 2048   ( here boot drive is c and increased space is 2 GB)

After running the correct command it will display the current space

Go to Computer Management/My computer and verify the space is already increased

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