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Data Disk Expansion

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By default, the root partition is provisioned with ~100GB and the data partition is provisioned with ~49GB

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Increase disk size of a node in vCenter:​

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Below instructions and screenshots are taken on vSphere Client version 7.0.2.

  • Login to vCenter and search for the name of the VM that requires the disk to be increased.

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  • Click on Actions dropdown and select "Edit Settings"

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  • In the setting dialogue box update the disk size and Click Ok

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  • Refresh the page and confirm that the Hard disk value has been updated to the new value.

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  • The disk size changes made in vCenter to a running VM will not make space visible to the running OS. So, we have to reboot the VM.

    • SSH into the node.
    ssh forward@<IP Address>
    • Reboot the node using below command:
    sudo reboot

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Expand the disk on a cluster node​

  • To expand the available space on the disk, Launch the fwd-cluster utility and execute the below command:

    Forward Cluster> host expand-disk