Windows | Increase System Partition Size Remotely PS

After increasing a virtual machine VMDK size you need to also resize this partition in Windows.

This can be completed remotely using PowerShell. There are various methods to run this but I prefer to use “Server Management” and admin the machines from here. you can run “PowerShell” on a remote session to run the script below.

This process will increase the C:\ partition to use all space that has been allocated by VMware. (Replace -DriveLetter with the required drive)

There are various methods (this is just one of them) 


Update-HostStorageCache
$size = Get-PartitionSupportedSize -DriveLetter C
Write-Output $size
Resize-Partition -DriveLetter C -Size $size.SizeMax -Verbose
Write-Output "Drive Extension Complete!"

Exit-PSSession

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