Dynamic expansion of Windows Server virtual machine disk in Vcenter environment (no need to shut down and restart)

new disk

Find the virtual machine to be expanded -------- edit settings -------- add

, select the type as disk

, select to create a new virtual disk , and then
select the size and location of the newly added disk in the next step, the location is recommended It is stored in the same directory as . When the virtual machine storage disk space is insufficient, you can choose to specify a data storage or data storage cluster , and then go directly to the next step to complete.

disk expansion

Then log in to the virtual machine server and open Disk Management

Find the newly added disk and click Online -----Initialize Disk

Convert the disk to be expanded to a dynamic disk

, then click on the disk to be expanded to select the extended volume,

and expand the newly created disk to this disk

click yes

Then go to confirm whether the expansion of the disk is successful. Alibaba cloud ecs Windows server disk expansion is the same