It requires much more steps to expand virtual disk with Hyper-V Manager, but it can expand virtual disk dynamically without shutting down the guest virtual machine. How to expand virtual hard disk with Hyper-V Manager
Steps to expand Hyper-V virtual disk with PowerShell: How to expand virtual disk in Hyper-V with PowerShellĮxpanding Hyper-V virtual disk with PowerShell is much easier and faster, but before expanding disk (both VHD and VHDX) there are 2 things you should do: To expand virtual hard disk in Hyper-V guest server or client machine, there are 2 common ways via PowerShell and Hyper-V Manager. When a physical disk is full, you have to copy and migrate to another larger one, but to Hyper-V virtual disk, you can expand it directly, therefore, it's much easier and faster.
The same with physical hard disk drives, virtual disk in Hyper-V also runs out of space.