Increasing size of VHD

It happened to me more than once that I've started VPC and only when almost done installing and cofiguring it, I found out that the initial size of the VHD is simply not enough. Well, there's a way to fix that!

You need VhdResizer tool to create a larger copy of the "small" disk. Then you attach that copy to the existing VPC as 2nd drive and extend the volume once booted up.

Very nice detailed how-to is here.

Hyper-V Server Installation

Configuring Win7 client to work with HyperV Remote Management is nicely described here.

I ran into issues where in Server Manager I couldn't connect to "Disk Management". The trick is to enable "Remote Volume Management" rules on the HyperV server's firewall (you can do it through the Server Management from remote machine). More info is here.

Next step is to create PCD virtual machine - nice short how-to is here (unfortunately only in czech).

Trouble with network adapters in VH - help is here.

Backup data using ROBOCOPY

Need to set up some way of making backups of data from my drive. There's a ROBOCOPY utility in the Win2003 Resource Kit which should do the trick. I found even Robocopy GUI, which generates the script for you. Once you have the CMD file, just put it into scheduler.