> I have run out of space after I restored a SQL database - and I want to
> increase my virtual hard drive from what II have 16 GB to 230 GB. When I
> created the Hard disk I was a Newbie and I did not realize this is a
> permanent selection.
>
> Any way, I have searched the Virtual Server Help - and it mentions something
> about how I can "merge" additional drives - but I cant find these options in
> my Admin menu.
>
> The newsa group mentions how I can achieve this using imaging ["Once you
> create the a VHD with its maximum size, you cannot change it. You will need
> to treat it like a physical hard drive and use an imaging program to move to
> a larger disk.[Steve Jain] ....."]
>
> Does anyone know of such imaging program? I got an old copy of Ghost -
> should I use that? Or someone know Microsoft or a third party product I need
> to purchase?
>
> Thanks
>
> NC
>
>
>

>I have run out of space after I restored a SQL database - and I want to
>increase my virtual hard drive from what II have 16 GB to 230 GB. When I
>created the Hard disk I was a Newbie and I did not realize this is a
>permanent selection.
>
> Any way, I have searched the Virtual Server Help - and it mentions
> something about how I can "merge" additional drives - but I cant find
> these options in my Admin menu.
>
> The newsa group mentions how I can achieve this using imaging ["Once you
> create the a VHD with its maximum size, you cannot change it. You will
> need to treat it like a physical hard drive and use an imaging program to
> move to a larger disk.[Steve Jain] ....."]
>
> Does anyone know of such imaging program? I got an old copy of Ghost -
> should I use that? Or someone know Microsoft or a third party product I
> need to purchase?
>
> Thanks
>
> NC
>

> Thank youSmith... Thank you David....
>
> OK I have added and extra dynamic drive. My questions is :
>
>
> Given that the second vhd is in the same physical RAID partition, which of
> the option below will give me the best performance:
> (1) Have a second vhd on the same physical disk (easiest option)
> (2) Use a single big vhd: Use WinImage or ghost to image of the existing
> out of space vhd, create a bigger dynamic vhd using CS2005, un unimage
> image to the new vhd, and delete the old vhd
>
> Just out of curiosity - the documentation mentions something about I get
> better performance if I have a virtual SCSI [though I have SATA based RAID
> 1 disk array]. Documentation also mentions that Fixed Disk is faster than
> dynamic.
>
> Has anyone benchmarked these to see if the difference are significiant? I
> rather have Dynamic - as I know I dont ever have to worry about running
> out of disk space (assuming it is defragmented once or twice a year).
>
>
>
> ">>Smith<<" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
> news:(email address - cut out)...
>> Attached a drive and move the SQL database to that drive.
>>
>>
>
>
> "David Cornes" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
> news:(email address - cut out)...
>> You can't. Treat it just like a real server and add another virtual hard
>> disk of sufficient size for your needs, and then either a) manually move
>> the SQL databases onto this new disk, or b) convert the disks to dynamic
>> (if the first one isn't the system partition) and create a spanned
>> partition.
>
>

> Thank youSmith... Thank you David....
>
> OK I have added and extra dynamic drive. My questions is :
>
>
> Given that the second vhd is in the same physical RAID partition, which of
> the option below will give me the best performance:
> (1) Have a second vhd on the same physical disk (easiest option)
> (2) Use a single big vhd: Use WinImage or ghost to image of the existing out
> of space vhd, create a bigger dynamic vhd using CS2005, un unimage image to
> the new vhd, and delete the old vhd
>
> Just out of curiosity - the documentation mentions something about I get
> better performance if I have a virtual SCSI [though I have SATA based RAID 1
> disk array]. Documentation also mentions that Fixed Disk is faster than
> dynamic.
>
> Has anyone benchmarked these to see if the difference are significiant? I
> rather have Dynamic - as I know I dont ever have to worry about running out
> of disk space (assuming it is defragmented once or twice a year).
>
>
>
> ">>Smith<<" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
> news:(email address - cut out)...
> > Attached a drive and move the SQL database to that drive.
> >
> >
>
>
> "David Cornes" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
> news:(email address - cut out)...
> > You can't. Treat it just like a real server and add another virtual hard
> > disk of sufficient size for your needs, and then either a) manually move
> > the SQL databases onto this new disk, or b) convert the disks to dynamic
> > (if the first one isn't the system partition) and create a spanned
> > partition.
>
>
>

> Attached a drive and move the SQL database to that drive.
>
>
> You can't. Treat it just like a real server and add another virtual hard
> disk of sufficient size for your needs, and then either a) manually move
> the SQL databases onto this new disk, or b) convert the disks to dynamic
> (if the first one isn't the system partition) and create a spanned
> partition.

>I have run out of space after I restored a SQL database - and I want to
>increase my virtual hard drive from what II have 16 GB to 230 GB. When I
>created the Hard disk I was a Newbie and I did not realize this is a
>permanent selection.
>
> Any way, I have searched the Virtual Server Help - and it mentions
> something about how I can "merge" additional drives - but I cant find
> these options in my Admin menu.
>
> The newsa group mentions how I can achieve this using imaging ["Once you
> create the a VHD with its maximum size, you cannot change it. You will
> need to treat it like a physical hard drive and use an imaging program to
> move to a larger disk.[Steve Jain] ....."]
>
> Does anyone know of such imaging program? I got an old copy of Ghost -
> should I use that? Or someone know Microsoft or a third party product I
> need to purchase?
>
> Thanks
>
> NC
>