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Paragon Software released a completely free version of Partition Manager for Virtual Machine . It is a bootable image optimized for the management of records in a virtual environment that allows you to perform various operations on partitions of our VMs.

List some of the features made available:

• extend or resize partitions
• fixing the major problems boot of Microsoft operating systems
• 27 different defragmentation strategies (NTFS only)
• Support for Microsoft Dynamic Disks and GPT (GUID Partition Table)

To immediately put to the test Paragon Partition Manager 10 we have expanded a disk of a Windows XP virtual machine on VMWare vSphere, operation done dozens of times with Acronis Disk Director. The interface has several boot options:

Paragon Partition Manager is accessed by selecting the set of basic functionality for managing partitions. From here you can easily expand the functionality of the disk move / resize:

Once confirmed with the Apply pulsane, the operation is completed in a few seconds. The user interface is feature rich and advanced features, definitely dedicated to an audience of system administrators.

For further information you can also consult the manual in pdf as well as the website of Paragon.

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