how ot extend disk space

[Layth Shasha]

I have an xtra storage disks added to my eva SAN.
1) I have added the disks the disks group on the MGMT console.
2)I Have added it Vdisks on the MGMT console.
3) they appear as free space at the specified disks under disk management on my server.
4) the server is a node of two node cluster running w2000 datacentre sp2.
5) disks are all basic.

now how do i extend it in windows please. ?

[Steven Clementi · Accepted solution]

Layth:

Have you looked at the link I provided in the other thread?


http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;304736


Also, if you still have the error, can you post a screenshot of it so we can see?


Basicly, you need to shutdown all the nodes of the cluster, but 1.

On the one node, you need to stop the services that are using the disk. Basically, just take the group offline.

Then bring the disk you want to extend, online.

Use diskpart to extend and then bring the group back online.

Diskpart commands...

list disk
select disk
list volume
select volume
list partition
select partition
extend

Not all of these need to be used, but at the very least, ou will need to use select disk and select partition and extend.


Steven

[Steven Clementi]

Or as the KB article says...

select volume and extend

[Layth Shasha]

Fantastic steven.
thank you
Problem solved