PowerProtect Data Manager 19.16 Administrator Guide

Modify the data disk size

Follow these steps to expand the size of the data disk.

1. Perform the following steps from the vSphere Web Client:
   1. Right-click the virtual machine and select Shut Down Guest OS.
   2. After the power off completes, right-click the virtual machine 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 virtual machine and select Power On.
2. Perform the following steps from the system console, as the root user.
   NOTE:If you use ssh to connect to the system console, log in with the admin account, and then use the su command to change to the root account.
   1. Restart the system 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 restart 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. Restart the system by typing systemctl reboot.
4. Log in to the system console as the root user.
   NOTE:If you use ssh protocol to connect to the system, 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.