Extend drive from SAN

[Shane McAnuff]

I have a MS Exchange 2003 server running on MS server 2003, my exchange mail box is mounted on the SAN with 200GB, I want to extend the drive from 200GB to 300GB but windows see the 100GB and a different volume, how can I let windows extend the 200GB and add the 100GB?

[IBaltay]

Hi,
you should use the diskpart command:
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B325590&x=16&y=13

[Steven Clementi]

Shane:

Assuming you mean the server see's a disk with 2 partitions on it... (1 disk with 1 200GB parition and 1 100GB partition or Free Space)

Simple...

1. Stop your Exchange Services
2. From a command prompt, run diskpart.exe
3. Run the following to find and select the disk/partition you need to extend...

list disk
select disk # (where # is the number of the disk you want to extend)
list partition
select partition # (where # is the partition you want to extend, usually the first partition)
extend
4. Restart the Exchange services.
5. done.

If you see 2 separate disks in the Windows Disk Manager, then you did something wrong while expanding your disk... assuming you expanded your existing disk.

What storage array are you using?


Steven