PowerProtect Data Manager 19.11 Administration and User Guide

Modify the data disk size

Follow these steps to expand the size of a data disk that is single partitioned and has the log partition is on the system disk.

1. Perform the following steps from the vSphere Web Client:
   1. Right-click the VM Direct appliance and select Shut Down Guest OS.
   2. After the power off completes, right-click the appliance and select Edit Settings.
      The Edit Settings window appears with the Virtual Hardware button selected.
   3. Increase the provisioned size of Hard disk 2 to the desired size, and then click OK.
      NOTE You cannot decrease the provisioned size of the disk.
   4. Right-click the VM Direct appliance and select Power On.
2. Perform the following steps from the appliance console, as the root user.
   NOTE If you use ssh to connect to the appliance, log in with the admin account, and then use the su command to change to the root account.
   1. Reboot the appliance by typing reboot.
   2. On the GNU GRUB menu, press Esc to edit the GNU GRUB menu.
   3. In the edit screen, search for the line that starts with Linux, and then add word single before the entry splash=0
      The following figure provides an example of the edit screen with the updated text.

      

   4. Press Ctrl-x to reboot into single-user mode.
   5. When prompted, type the password for the root account.
   6. Unmount the data disk, by typing umount /data01.
   7. Start the partition utility, by typing parted, and then perform the following tasks:
      1. Type select /dev/sdb.
      2. Type print. If you are prompted to fix issues, type fix at each prompt. The output displays the new disk size in the Size field and the current size in the table.
      3. Type resize 1 new_size. Where new_size is the value that appears in the Size field in the output of the print command.

         For example, to resize the disk to 700 GB, type: resize 1 752GB

      4. Type quit.
3. Reboot the VM Direct appliance by typing systemctl reboot.
4. Log in to the console as the root user.
   NOTE If you use ssh protocol to connect to the VM Direct appliance, log in with the admin account, and then use the su command to change to the root account.
5. Grow the xfs file system by typing xfs_growfs -d /data01.
6. Confirm the new partition size by typing df -h.