[Reprinted] VM role practice: the vm c disk uploaded on the azure platform cannot be larger than 64 GB

The customer brought a virtual machine. As a result, the C drive is divided into 126 GB. As shown in:

When you use csupload for upload, the error "thevhds logical size of 130048 MB exceeds the system maximum of 66560mb" will appear.

Solution: shrink disk C

Procedure:

 

1. Shut down thevm.

2. Copy vhd fileto your machine from where you will be using Ming csupload.

3. Attach locallycopied vhd from disk management console.

4. Right clickand select option as "Attach vhd ".

5. Select locallycopied vhd file and click OK.

6. Right click onnewly attached disk and select "shrink volume" option.

7. provide thesize of the disk you want to shrink. in your case the vhd to be less than 65gb. so anything below 62 GB will be suitable. make sure that you enter such a valuein "Enter amoun Tof space to shrink in MB" textbox so that value in "total size after shrink in MB" textbox will have value less than60gb.

8. Detach vhdafter completion of shrink.

9. download andinstall vhdresizer application, which is free. then open the vhdresizerapplication and provide the vhd file path of above shrank vhd in source. thenprovide Destination path and new size as 61 GB and click on resize button.

10. thedestination path will have vhd with required size. Proceed with csupload ofvhd. Azure will not show any problem.

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