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Inflate Hard Disks 1.1

If you are using vCenter version lower than v5.x or could not select ZeroEager for the SQL server cluster while deploying the OVFs, configure the SQL Server using the interface.

Note: For the steps to configure the SQL Server using the command prompt, see the section Configure SQL server from command prompt.

Configure the disks on the host VMware ESX server.

Note: Skip this section if you could deploy using Thick ZeroEager.

Important! Complete the following process before you power on the Microsoft SQL Cluster vApp for the first time.

Perform the following steps to inflate hard disk 2 and hard disk 3, in the VMware vSphere Client.

Follow these steps:

1. Right-click the OSS-SQL1 virtual machine and select Edit Settings.

   The virtual machine Properties window opens.

2. Select Hard Disk 2 and 3 from the hardware list and write down the Disk File name.

   Note: Make sure that the names are readily available for the further steps.

   Example: [Intermountain6] OSS-SQL1/OSS-SQL1_1.vmdk. e

   [Datastore name] Folder name/Disk file name.vmdk (ends in vmdk)
   

3. Click Cancel.
4. Click the Summary tab on OSS-SQL1.
5. Right-click the Datastore, and select Browse Datastore.

   The datastore name displays.

   

6. To open the folders, double-click the folder name, for example, OSS-SQL1, .
7. Select and right-click the hard disk2 name, for example, OSS-SQL1_1.vmdk.
8. Click Inflate.

9. Repeat steps 4 through 8 for hard disk 3.