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Dear Experts,
I've been googling around trying to expand one of our SCCM drives where all content library resides. This has caused issues with our DP and reporting service point and failed for CB update prerequisite check.
I was advised to expand the drive by changing it from BASIC to DYNAMIC but I'm not sure what is the side effect and any risks of destroying our prod server. I'm also looking for third-party tools like EaseUS but seems they are also offering to change the disk to dynamic:(
I tried to clean up the content library but it showed me "Approximately 0 bytes would have been freed if this tool was run in delete mode." I was also thinking about initiating a new drive, change it next to G drive, deleting the volume and expand F drive to use the space but that seems very risky in production...
This is our primary site and we have only one Win 2019 server hosting everything including the SQL server. I might also need to expand other drives later but I'm totally lost now:(
Any help would be really appreciated. Thanks a lot for your assistance in advance.
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Hi,
For this problem, there are multiple ways to solve. I think one of the easiest ways is to follow below steps:
1, for disk2, right click, initialize and now we get 600GB free space
2, for the free space, right click, create simple volume and follow the wizard to perform quick format and get a new drive letter, for example, L:
3, clone volume F: to volume L: if we want to keep the data, otherwise, ignore this step. Note: there are several tools for the cloning, free or business. If we do not have any tools, we can use xcopy to copy the data with NTFS permission, for example, xcopy F:\SCCMContentLib L:\SCCMContentLib /E /H /X /Y
4, after all the data is copied, for drive F, right click, choose "Change Drive Letter and Paths", "Remove". Note: this just removes the drive letter associated to this volume, and the data not changed. We can add drive letter back at any time.
5, for drive L, right click, choose "Change Drive Letter and Paths", "Change", and select "F". Now, the new volume F: has 600GB capacity. To make sure, please restart the computer to take effect.
Regards,
Alex
Thanks a lot @AlexZhu-MSFT . Since this is our production environment, and this SCCM server was hosted in ESXI, is it safer to take a snapshot and do it this way? I was also advised to use ROBYCOPY, not sure if that makes any difference. I had another question at https://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/answers/questions/1509556/sccm-cb-2309-prep-check-failed where @Simon Ren-MSFT advised to convert the F drive to DYNAMIC, what I concern the most is any service impact to the production:(
Hi Eaven Huang,
Thank you for the prompt response. Actually, as stated above, we can use any tools to copy the data to new volume and xcopy is the last choice. Feel free to use your favorite tool.
Simon has talked to me for the case mentioned, it's another option. However, we cannot convert it back (to basic type) after the disk is dynamic.
When a volume is assigned with a drive letter (or linked to a path), then the OS and application can access it. Since the two volumes are of identical data, we can swap the drive letter freely if there are no new changes. So, the risk is small (just a reboot of computer), however, since this is production environment, data backup is preferred and encouraged.
Regards, Alex
Thanks a lot, Alex @AlexZhu-MSFT I will try to do this in TEST first and update you on the thread.
Changing the drive from basic to dynamic will have no effect. You don't need any 3rd party tools to extend the drive. https://askgarth.com/blog/how-to-expand-a-disk-within-a-vm-that-is-using-a-vhd-file/