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| Author: | BarbaroB [ Sat Mar 15, 2014 11:53 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Physical Copy issue |
Hi there, I have a Virtual Windows 2003 Server with 2TB RDM. Department is upgrading to Server 2012R2. I created a Physical Copy of VV on 3PAR. I set the new destination volume 2.5TB So 2TB data copied to 2.5TB VV Promoted Physical Copy and exported to VMware host. I had bunch of problem bringing the new VV on the new server because Microsoft again managed to make everything so complicated on 2012R2. Anyway I managed to bring the disk up on Server 2012 The lun added to virtual server 2012 as RDM But it shows 2.5TB disk with 2TB partition and 0.5TB unallocated partition. I tried everything diskpart, dell extpart utulity, disk management but I wasn`t able to extend that 2TB to 2.5TB What did I do wrong here? |
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| Author: | Cleanur [ Mon Mar 17, 2014 6:44 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Physical Copy issue |
At a guess your hitting the max partition size for a Windows basic disk which is 2TB's. http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/arch ... orage.aspx |
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| Author: | spencer.ryan [ Mon Mar 17, 2014 1:37 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Physical Copy issue |
You need to either switch the disk to dynamic and chain several LUNs together (not recommended) Or you need to change the disk to use GPT -http://www.thewindowsclub.com/convert-mbr-to-gpt-disk |
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| Author: | hdtvguy [ Tue Mar 18, 2014 5:35 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Physical Copy issue |
Sounds like you have a MBR disk and need a GPT, you can not convert a MBR to GPT without losing data, you can convert to a dynamic disk, but note that if I recall VSS does not support dynamic disks if you need to do VSS level backups. |
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