Bare Metal Deployment

Question

When Deploying a VHD through Bare Metal you end up with a C: that is 40 BG is size and a D: the size of the physical drive. Is there any way to change the size of the resulting C:
Is there any good documentation on this

Answer 1

The size of the "C:" drive is dependant on the size of the VHD(x) file you are deploying to the host.
You will always see the D drive and it will always show the entire size of the physical drive as it is indeed the physical drive that hosts the VHD(x) file (the C drive is the mounted VHDx file stored on the "D" physical drive).
If you want to see the C drive as using all of the available space the physical drive has, size it appropriately when creating it.
However... 50-60Gb should be sufficient for any deployment as it should only ever be the Base OS, plus Hyper-V component + drivers + Management tools/Agents. The physical drive needs enough space to store the expanded size of the VHD(x) file plus the Page
File (this is created outside of the VHD(x) file).
This also means that you can then use that VHD(x) file to deploy to any server with a physical drive bigger than say 60Gb rather than sizing the VHD(x) file at 200Gb and only being able to use it with servers with 200Gb+ physical drives.
This link might help you understand it more as it's a general Windows feature not VMM/Hyper-V:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh825689.aspx
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