ksagarsee

I just met a lady in a wheelchair who’s mentally challenged. She was smiling and happy and headed downstairs to see the fish in the fish tank in the children’s area. But that’s not the only reason she’s here. She volunteers here at the church. She helps clean the toys in one of the children’s rooms.

It doesn’t matter who you are, whether you’re the kind of person who can help the church acquire property in downtown South Bend so we can make our outreach to the homeless better, or a mentally and physically challenged woman with a big heart… there’s a place for you to serve and be a part of the kingdom of God.

This is a good church.

Is it any wonder they hired me? This is how they USED to do troubleshooting.

You should see how he cleans a mouse…

We ran into an issue today, one of our Virtual Machines running Windows Server 2003 had a full C: drive. Turns out whoever had built the box had only given it 7GB for the system drive and we were only about 74mb from maxing it out. I looked around for directions on how to expand the C drive and found some different directions, including these from VMWeekly. His instructions were really long and complicated, but they were my starting place. I found a MUCH easier way to do what I needed to do.

Check it out.

1. Shut Down the Virtual Machine (We’ll call it VM1)
2. On the Host machine open a command prompt and go to C:\Program Files\VMware\Vmware Server and run vmware-vdiskmanager.exe -x 15Gb mydisk.vmdk. That will take a few minutes while it resizes the disk.
   1. Where 15Gb is the size you want your disk to be, and mydisk.vmdk is the path and name of your virtual disk you want to resize (make sure to put it in ” “’s. I forgot.)
   2. This changes the disk size, but NOT the partition size, which is what you’re really after.
3. Assuming you have multiple VMs on this machine, shut down one that’s not system critical. (If you don’t have one, make a copy of the one you’re currently working on and keep going)
4. Edit the settings on this second VM (we’ll call it VM2) and on the Hardware tab Add a new existing Hard drive and point it to the original “mydisk.vmdk” (the disk we just resized) thus mounting it as a second hard drive.
5. Boot VM2 and open a command prompt
6. Next we’ll use Diskpart to extend the “new” volume on this machine.
   1. To use Diskpart, just type diskpart and hit enter. This puts you in the diskpart program.
   2. Type list volumes
      1. From the list find your new volume (probably D or E, depending on how many drives VM2 already had. Get the Volume # from it)
   3. Type select volume # (where # = the new volume from above)
   4. Type extend
      1. This assumes that you’re extending this to fill the rest of the space on the disk.
   5. You should get a confirmation that it’s done.
7. Shut down VM2
8. Edit the setting for VM2 and Remove the hard drive that we’d added before
9. Now go back and start VM1 and you should find that it has the larger hard drive that you were hoping for!