It is usual that after several years the space forecasts in a virtual machine are exceeded, in many cases because the project for which it has been destined is being a success and requires a larger storage size. What in principle may be a joy, also involves extra effort, since if the machine is in production, and we have more users, it means that we cannot turn off the machine for an hour to perform maintenance tasks. Thanks to XEN we can change the virtual hard disk without having excessive problems

When we find ourselves in a situation of servers in production, it is advisable from time to time to perform a complete backup of the machine on certain specific servers, or we simply want to move said machine to another system but we cannot do it in a traditional way. Next we are going to see a technique in which it is not necessary to turn off the virtual machine, and continue providing service without noticing excessive deterioration of the service, or its crash.

It is not strange that when sizing a virtual machine we have certain project specifications which change over time, and the need to increase disk space may be essential.

At first glance it may seem like a tedious task and you may start to tremble at the possible loss of data, but after a good prayer, a strong coffee and a win these fears disappear, leaving behind some simple steps described below.

Although we all virtualize, I always hear the same complaints about the administration interface of Virtual Server R2, since the administrative interface is via the web we lose some of the speed we have with the clicks in desktop applications (either real or it gives us the sensation).

Well, we have a little-known alternative, even with this tool we can install some Additions.

VMRCplus Interface

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The truth is that the Virtual Server administration menu is cool, everything that is decentralization of the desktop and taking it to the web is undoubtedly an advance.

Although what I am going to do is how to manage a machine from the web, well, the first phase will be knowing how to start and stop it, which can be done using a simple script placed on our website:

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