Modifying the disk size of an SSB virtual appliance (263899)

Modifying the disk size of an SSB virtual appliance

SSB can only use fixed disk space assigned to the virtual host. If you must increase the size of the virtual disk, complete the following steps. Disk resize can grow the filesystem up to 1024x size of the original size.

If you originally installed SSB version 4.9.1 or later you can extend the disk automatically. This knowledge base article will cover this scenario.

If you upgraded to SSB 5 from an earlier version you will need to extend the disk manually using our internal script. Open a support ticket and ask for the script and guide.

If you're unsure about your installation, you can check it the following way.

• Log in to the boot shell
• Execute the following command

df -h /mnt/drbd

• Check "Filesystem" field
• If the device name is something like /dev/Xda4, the disk can be resized automatically using this procedure.
  Letter X might vary on different systems. Usually it is 's' or 'v'.

Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on

/dev/sda4        12G  8.9G  2.9G  76% /mnt/drbd

• If the device is /dev/drbd0, you have to resize the disk using our script and guide.

WARNING!

The machine that SSB is running on has to be a virtual machine. This procedure will not work on a physical machine.

 

STEPS:

1. To ensure that no data is lost in case of an error, create a full system backup (configuration and data backup). For detailed instructions, see "Data and configuration backups" in the Administration Guide.
2. Power down the virtual machine.
3. Increase the storage size.
4. Restart SSB.