This section describes how you can add additional hard disks in the VMware vSphere Client as a custom cloud service provider data disk to your syslog-ng Store Box (SSB) configuration.

If you need more disk space than the disk size of your default data disk available in syslog-ng Store Box (SSB), from version 6.9.0, you can also add a custom cloud service provider data disk to your configuration. From 6.9.0, SSB supports adding a Microsoft Azure-managed disk and from 6.10.0, SSB supports adding additional disks in VMware ESXi to your SSB configuration as a custom cloud service provider data disk, and assigning the SSB logspace of your choice to it.

Limitations

When adding a new hard disk in VMware ESXi that you will later want to add to your SSB configuration, consider the following limitations in advance:

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    CAUTION: Hazard of data loss!

    One Identity does not support decreasing the size of an additional VMware ESXi hard disk added to your SSB configuration as a custom cloud service provider data disk.

    You can only add, remove, or resize a custom cloud service provider data disk in your configuration after shutting your SSB device down first. Hot swaps are not supported.

  • SSB only accepts and detects empty disks as custom cloud service provider data disks. As a result, you can only add a newly created Azure managed disk or VMware ESXi disk as a custom cloud service provider data disk to your SSB configuration. Adding an already existing Azure managed disk (by clicking Attach existing disks on the Microsoft Azure portal) or already existing VMware ESXi disk is not supported.

  • Transporting custom cloud service provider data disks between SSB devices is not supported.

  • One Identity does not support adding Microsoft Azure or VMware ESXi managed disks to your SSB logspaces as a shared disk.

Adding an additional disk in VMware ESXi as a custom cloud service provider data disk on the Microsoft Azure Portal side

Adding a new Microsoft Azure-managed disk as a custom cloud service provider data disk to your SSB configuration requires procedures that you must complete in a strict order.

To add a new hard disk as a custom cloud service provider data disk on the VMware vSphere Client side,

  1. Shut down your SSB device completely.

  2. Log in to the VMware vSphere Client site.

  3. Navigate to the virtual machine of your SSB device.

    Figure 2: <your-virtual-machine-in-VMware-ESXi>

  4. Follow the instructions of the VMware documentation to Add a New Disk to a Virtual Machine with the size of your choice to the virtual machine of your device.

    Figure 3: <your-virtual-machine-in-VMware-ESXi> > VM Hardware > Edit settings... > ADD NEW DEVICE > Hard Disk - Adding a new disk

    After successfully attaching the data disk, it appears under the Disks of the virtual machine of your SSB device.

  5. Restart the virtual machine for your SSB device, add the newly created disk to your SSB configuration as a custom cloud service provider data disk, and then assign the SSB logspace of your choice to the newly added custom cloud service provider data disk.