How to increase VM size of D365 F&O

In this post we are going to see how we can increase the size of our VM (virtual machine) of D365 F&O or any other version of VM.

1.        Turn On the Hyper-V feature of windows (It will require Administrator privilege)

After turning this feature on, restart the PC and open Power shell

Write the following command, this will need Admin privilege again for its execution (here specify path of VHD and new size in GB, make sure the new size isn’t much and sufficient space is left in your hard disk after its expansion)

NOTE: make copy of your VHD file and then run command on copied file only (If something goes wrong we will have original file)

Command: resize-VHD -path C:\D365\FinandOps10.0.vhd -sizeBytes 160GB

Now the virtual size of VHD is increased.

 

 

 

 

 

2.       On starting the VM it may give following error

VT-x is not available (VERR_VMX_NO_VMX).

Result Code: E_FAIL (0x80004005)

 

For this, we need to turn off the Hyper-V windows feature again and then after restarting windows.

3.       Now start the VM, inside VM right click on This PC and click Manage

 

4.       Open “File and Storage Services”

 

5.       Select the disk, right click and then Click Extend volume

 

6.       Select new size in GB

 

7.       The size of HDD will be expanded and available.