I'm using this image: https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps/microsoftsqlserver.sql2022-ws2022?tab=overview
To create a VM in Azure, as part of this setup I'm shuffling the drive letters a bit so that my Data Drive is the "D:" drive. This works fine until I attempt to expand the drive, when I do this instead of the drive expanding (in this example 1TB to 2TB) as a simple volume I see something like this:
If I right click on the single volume everything is greyed out... So scrolling down, I have this, which I can click on and expand:
So if I expand it, I get a "Spanned Drive", looking something like this:
Super strange... I the core of this is that the azure server is created with these:
"Storage Spaces Protective Partition"
Why? Does this how any downside (other than it being more confusing to manage), is there any way I have my servers NOT have these partitions initially setup (while using the same image)?