Expand-SCVirtualDiskDrive
Expand-SCVirtualDiskDrive
Expands a virtual hard disk attached to a virtual disk drive object.
Syntax
Parameter Set: Default
Expand-SCVirtualDiskDrive [-VirtualDiskDrive] <VirtualDiskDrive> -VirtualHardDiskSizeGB <Int32> [-JobGroup <Guid]> ] [-JobVariable <String> ] [-OnBehalfOfUser <System.String> ] [-OnBehalfOfUserRole <Microsoft.SystemCenter.VirtualMachineManager.UserRole> ] [-PROTipID <Guid]> ] [-RunAsynchronously] [ <CommonParameters>]
Detailed Description
The Expand-SCVirtualDiskDrive cmdlet expands a virtual hard disk attached to a virtual disk drive object in order to increase the total capacity of the virtual hard disk. The virtual machine must be deployed on a host managed by System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) and must be in a stopped state before you can expand the virtual hard disk.
You can use the Expand-SCVirtualDiskDrive cmdlet to expand a Windows-based virtual hard disk file (a .vhd file) attached to a virtual disk drive object on a virtual machine deployed on a Hyper-V host.
Parameters
-JobGroup<Guid]>
Specifies an identifier for a series of commands that will run as a set just before the final command that includes the same job group identifier runs.
Aliases |
none |
Required? |
false |
Position? |
named |
Default Value |
none |
Accept Pipeline Input? |
false |
Accept Wildcard Characters? |
false |
-JobVariable<String>
Specifies that job progress is tracked and stored in the variable named by this parameter.
Aliases |
none |
Required? |
false |
Position? |
named |
Default Value |
none |
Accept Pipeline Input? |
false |
Accept Wildcard Characters? |
false |
-OnBehalfOfUser<System.String>
Aliases |
none |
Required? |
false |
Position? |
named |
Default Value |
none |
Accept Pipeline Input? |
false |
Accept Wildcard Characters? |
false |
-OnBehalfOfUserRole<Microsoft.SystemCenter.VirtualMachineManager.UserRole>
Aliases |
none |
Required? |
false |
Position? |
named |
Default Value |
none |
Accept Pipeline Input? |
false |
Accept Wildcard Characters? |
false |
-PROTipID<Guid]>
Specifies the ID of the PRO tip that triggered this action. This allows for auditing of PRO tips.
Aliases |
none |
Required? |
false |
Position? |
named |
Default Value |
none |
Accept Pipeline Input? |
false |
Accept Wildcard Characters? |
false |
-RunAsynchronously
Indicates that the job runs asynchronously so that control returns to the command shell immediately.
Aliases |
none |
Required? |
false |
Position? |
named |
Default Value |
none |
Accept Pipeline Input? |
false |
Accept Wildcard Characters? |
false |
-VirtualDiskDrive<VirtualDiskDrive>
Specifies a virtual disk drive object. You can attach either a virtual hard disk (for a virtual machine on any host) or a pass-through disk (for a virtual machine on a Hyper-V host or an ESX host) to a virtual disk drive object.
Aliases |
none |
Required? |
true |
Position? |
1 |
Default Value |
none |
Accept Pipeline Input? |
True (ByValue) |
Accept Wildcard Characters? |
false |
-VirtualHardDiskSizeGB<Int32>
Specifies, in gigabytes (GB), the size to which a dynamically expanding virtual hard disk will expand.
Aliases |
Size |
Required? |
true |
Position? |
named |
Default Value |
none |
Accept Pipeline Input? |
false |
Accept Wildcard Characters? |
false |
<CommonParameters>
This cmdlet supports the common parameters: -Verbose, -Debug, -ErrorAction, -ErrorVariable, -OutBuffer, and -OutVariable. For more information, see about_CommonParameters (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkID=113216).
Inputs
The input type is the type of the objects that you can pipe to the cmdlet.
Outputs
The output type is the type of the objects that the cmdlet emits.
- VirtualHardDisk
Notes
- Requires a VMM virtual disk drive object, which can be retrieved by using the Get-SCVirtualDiskDrive cmdlet.
Examples
Example 1: Expand a virtual hard disk attached to a virtual disk drive on a virtual machine
The first command gets the virtual machine object named VM01, and then stores the object in the $VM variable.
The second command gets the virtual disk drive object located on the first controller ($_.Bus -eq 0) and first slot of that controller ($_.Lun -eq 0) of VM01, and then stores the object in the $VirtDiskDrive variable.
The last command expands the size of the virtual hard disk attached to the virtual disk drive to 40 GB.
PS C:\> $VM = Get-SCVirtualMachine -Name "VM01"
PS C:\> $VirtDiskDrive = Get-SCVirtualDiskDrive -VM $VM | where {$_.Bus -eq 0 -and $_.Lun -eq 0}
PS C:\> Expand-SCVirtualDiskDrive -VirtualDiskDrive $VirtDiskDrive -VirtualHardDiskSizeGB 40