how to expand after newly created VM...

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arlagoso

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We got a server which works on a windows 2003 database. What i want to do
is, i'd like to convert it to VMDK with acronis and then add it to proxmox. The VMDK
file which is created is 60GB and i can succesfully import it into my "proxmox VM".

Altough the file created with Acronis is 60GB, after adding and executing this file to proxmox, cant we expand the area we have, to 100GB?


Thanks a lot....
 
arlagoso said:
We got a server which works on a windows 2003 database. What i want to do
is, i'd like to convert it to VMDK with acronis and then add it to proxmox. The VMDK
file which is created is 60GB and i can succesfully import it into my "proxmox VM".

Altough the file created with Acronis is 60GB, after adding and executing this file to proxmox, cant we expand the area we have, to 100GB?


Thanks a lot....
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Hi,
yes this is possible. If you use lvm-storage simply expand the logical volume: see "man lvextend".
But the easy way is: by creating the vm, choose 100GB as disksize.
After copy the data (dd) the last 40GB are unused. But if you boot inside the VM a live-cd like pmagic you can expend there your filesystem to 100G.

Udo
 
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