Hot Resize System Partition on Server 2003

[Brovane]

We have a fair amount of Server 2003 virtual machines in a ESX Cluster. I have several that are running out of space on the C-drive.

With Server 2008 VM's I can dynamically increase the size of the system partition. This is built into the OS and I can do this with the basic disk management utility.

I have seen several ways to boot to a ISO for server 2003 and then resize. However I was looking at away that I could hot resize a server 2003 system partition. Is anyone aware of any software that would allow me to do this?

A utility I was looking at. They would seem to let me hot extend a Server 2003 system partition.

http://www.partitionwizard.com/faq.html

 

[compman25]

Guess you can't put this link in: http://www.********************/easeus-partition-manager-server/, but just search for easeus partition manager server

 

[Brovane]

Guess you can't put this link in: http://www.********************/easeus-partition-manager-server/, but just search for easeus partition manager server

I also looked at that one. It looked good but wasn't sure about it.

However I did find a free utility from Dell that I can use to extend partitions while the server is running.

http://www.displacedguy.com/extpart-utility.html

I already used it on a couple of VM servers this morning and it seems to work good.

However the EaseUS partition manager looks like it has a lot of flexiblity since it looks like I can resize partitions and join partitions together. I currently have a physical server that was setup with a 20GB C-Drive and 117GB D-drive on a RAID-1. The C-drive is running out of room. It looks like this EaseUS partition manager would allow me to merge both partitions together.