By Nicholas Schoonover on 12/19/2009 3:05 PM

I have a couple of cluster nodes that I failed to size the C: drive adequately and began to run out of disk space. No problem! They’re all virtual machines, so I just need to expand the disks and away I go! Well, I’ve run into this situation several times since my lab has a lot of machines that I’ve upgraded over the years and while 15 - 25 GB volumes were fine prior to Windows 2008, it just doesn’t get it now and I like to use 40 GB volumes. That said, I’ve seen several cases where the virtual disks grow correctly and show up in the OS correctly, but when you try and use the Windows 2008 disk extend feature then you get this error from Logical Disk Manager, “The parameter is incorrect.”

 

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By Nicholas Schoonover on 12/17/2009 10:04 AM

Tim Green at DTM Systems (tim.green@dtm.ca) in Vancouver, BC sent this to me today and I had to share. Tim is a great engineer that I’ve know for years and he does a job bridging business requirements to technical implementation. I have a lot of respect for his abilities and as you’ll read shortly, we have a shared sense of humor.

I’ve also been working with a large company on a HUGE migration project and I’m sure that they would second the motion to use server and storage migration solutions from Double-Take Software as well. So, without further ado…

 

  Twas the night before Monday and all through the room Geeks bent over keyboards as the deadline did loom. Tables were strewn with pizza half-eaten Pop cans and coffee cups and egos now beaten. The clock was ticking slowly as still they all sat While visions of sleep flew past just like that.

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