How do I expand the virtual disk of Network Analyzer VM?

[bmunger]

Is there a documented procedure on how to expand the size of the disk of the Network Analyzer virtual machine? The VM is running on VMWare so I can expand the disk easily, but how do I make the operating system utilize it correctly without messing something up? If there is a document on this, I can't find it...

[snapon_admin]

Typically you can follow the documentation for resizing the disk in XI for this. Can you run this and paste the output?

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df -h

If your VM isn't using LVM (like ours isn't for some reason) then you may have to mount an ISO of a disk partition utility like gparted and resize it that way. I literally resized our NNA server's virtual disk like an hour ago with this method. Whichever method you use don't forget to make backups!

[hsmith]

The NNA ova isn't running LVM, the developers are aware of this, but I do not know when/if it is on the roadmap. Did you install from ova?

[bmunger]

OK - I figured this out, using the Nagios XI re-sizing document as a guide. I was initially thrown off because LVM is not in use. It was actually pretty simple.

The steps are:

Resize in VMWare
run fdisk on virtual disk /dev/sda
Delete partition
Re-create partition using the end of the disk as the last cylinder
reboot

Then the resize command has to be run:

resize2fs /dev/sda1

That is pretty much it.

[rkennedy]

You got it. The guide describes in an LVM environment. Thanks for the contribution @snapon_admin!

Am I good to mark this thread as resolved, and close it out?