In the Actions pane, click Edit Disk to start the Edit Virtual Hard Disk Wizard.

Under Virtual Machines, select the virtual machine with the virtual hard disk that you want to expand. You can expand the storage capacity of the virtual hard disk using the following procedure: To expand the size of a virtual hard disk The new virtual hard disk will now be visible to the virtual machines operating system. On the Completing the New Simple Volume page, click Finish. On the Format Partition page, click Next. On the Assign Drive Letteror Path page, click Next. On the Specify Volume Size page, click Next. In the New Simple Volume Wizard, click Next. On the middle pane, right click the unallocated volume and click New Simple Volume. Right click the disk and click Initialize. On the middle pane, locate the new hard disk. On the Tools menu, click Computer Management.

To start Disk Manager, start the Server Manager. Under Virtual Machines, double click to connect to the virtual machine.Įnter credentials and login to the virtual machine. These instructions assume a virtual hard disk has been created for a Windows Server® 2012 R2virtual machine. The disk must be brought online, initialized and formatted. On the Completing the New Virtual Hard Disk Wizard page, click Finish.Īdding a virtual hard disk to the virtual machineĪfter adding a virtual hard disk, it is necessary to configure your virtual machine so that the operating system within the virtual machine can see the additional disk capacity. On the Configure Disk page, type disk size and click Next. If required, type the location of the virtual hard disk. On the Specify Name and Location page, type the name of the new virtual hard disk. On the Choose Disk Format page, choose VHDX and click Next. On the Before You Begin page, click Next. On the right pane, under Hard Drive, click New. On the right pane, under SCSI Controller, click Hard Drive. Under Virtual Machines, select the virtual machine.Ĭlick SCSI Controller. On the Tools menu, click Hyper-V Manager. On the Windows Start screen, click the Server Manager tile. To create a virtual hard disk for a virtual machineĬreate a virtual hard disk (attached to a SCSI controller) for a virtual machine using the following procedure: Prerequisitesīefore you attempt to edit the size of your virtual hard disk, make sure that you have the following:Ī computer running Windows Server® 2012 R2 or later with the Hyper-V role installed.Ī user account that is a member of the local Hyper-V Administrators group, or the Administrators group. For more information about resizing virtual hard disks, see Virtual hard disk resizing. Online resize is exclusive to SCSI attached VHDX files. The user interface option to shrink a virtual hard disk is only visible for virtual hard disks that have been expanded previously.

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