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Deployment Question

Source: microsoft.public.virtualserver
Sent: 05/05/2006
From: Jim I.
Message:

I am deploying Virtual Server for the first time, and have a very basic
installation question. The Administrator's Guide and other material I have
read states that the physical disk available will be the limit if you install
using the dynamic disk option. This is a test/development server, so I was
going to use this method. By physical disk available, does this mean the
amount allocated to the drive?

I have an 80 GB server, with 20 GBs allocated to the 'C' drive. I have a 10
GB 'F' drive, and 44 GB unallocated. I was going to install Virtual Server,
add 10 more GB to the 'F' drive, and install MS Small Business Server 2003 as
the guest OS on this drive. I could then make the max. disk for this install
20 GB, which would be the drive size, is that right?

If I am understanding this correctly, can I add more disk to the 'F' drive
later using the host OS, via disk management? From everything I have read, I
feel I cannot expand the size of the space for the OS once I have installed
it, but do not understand if I can add more to the drive that the OS resides
in.

Thanks for any help, education you can provide.

Jim

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Re: Deployment Question

Sent: 05/06/2006
From: "Bill Grant" <not.available@online>
Message:

The size you select for a virtual hard disk is the maximum size you can
ever have. If you select 20G, that is all you will ever get. The only way
you can change it later is to use the same techniques as you use to replace
a hard disk in a physical machine with a larger disk. Provided that you have
more than 20G free space on the physical drive hosting your vhd it will
expand up to 20G if required.

You can add a second hard disk at a later stage (just as you can on a
physical machine). But you can't increase the capacity of an existing drive.

Jim I. wrote:

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> I am deploying Virtual Server for the first time, and have a very
> basic installation question. The Administrator's Guide and other
> material I have read states that the physical disk available will be
> the limit if you install using the dynamic disk option. This is a
> test/development server, so I was going to use this method. By
> physical disk available, does this mean the amount allocated to the
> drive?
>
> I have an 80 GB server, with 20 GBs allocated to the 'C' drive. I
> have a 10 GB 'F' drive, and 44 GB unallocated. I was going to
> install Virtual Server, add 10 more GB to the 'F' drive, and install
> MS Small Business Server 2003 as the guest OS on this drive. I could
> then make the max. disk for this install 20 GB, which would be the
> drive size, is that right?
>
> If I am understanding this correctly, can I add more disk to the 'F'
> drive later using the host OS, via disk management? From everything
> I have read, I feel I cannot expand the size of the space for the OS
> once I have installed it, but do not understand if I can add more to
> the drive that the OS resides in.
>
> Thanks for any help, education you can provide.
>
> Jim

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