DC disk space

[Uber22]

Hey

 

When someone setup our DC before I took over they give the DC 80gb witch is nearly full whats the best way of expanding the server are in hyper v.

 

Thanks

[timbo343]

Surely you have another DC that will take over requests if you turn off this DC?

 

Shut down the DC and under settings of the VM you will be able to edit the VHD to give it a bigger volume so you can ecpand the partition when you boot the VM into windows via disk manager.

[Uber22]

Not at the moment. We had a second DC but it was only in load balancing mode and didn't replicate over the data. Long story but the das they purchased doesn't support high availability. Planning to replace this at Christmas and implement high availability.

[Roberto]

We had a second DC but it was only in load balancing mode and didn't replicate over the data.

 

That makes literally no sense whatsoever.

[timbo343]

Why dont you fire up a new VM and have it as a second DC, DNS and failover DHCP? Then youll be able down the DC with no space, quickly give it more and power it back up.

[Arthur]

If it's a gen. 2 VM you can resize the drive without shutting the DC down.

[Uber22]

Yes the VMS are gen 2 will give this ago later

[hallb15]

What @Arthur said. I've done this several times and it works. Just take your time and follow the instructions carefully.

[TwistedHelixis]

Same as last couple of posts. We only have one DC in each primary and I have done this a few times without issue. I have also shrunk a drive, which is a little more complicated, as someone had set the DC up with +1TB on the DC's C drive.

[CCCSecMan]

That makes literally no sense whatsoever.

 

My thoughts too.