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Virtual appliance maintenance
Modifying the disk size of a SPS virtual appliance
Modifying the disk size of a SPS
virtual appliance
SPS 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. Online disk resize can grow the filesystem
up to 1024x size of the original size.
Prerequisites:
You can resize the disk that way only if you originally installed SPS version 5 LTS or later.
This method will not work if you upgraded to 5 LTS from an earlier version.
To modify the disk size of a SPS virtual appliance
1. Hazard of data loss Modifying the disk size is a risky operation. Create a full
system backup (configuration and data backup) to avoid data loss. For detailed
instructions, see "Data and configuration backups" in the Administration Guide.
2. Power down the virtual machine.
3. Increase the storage size.
4. Power on the SPS virtual machine.
5. Login to SPS as root locally (or remotely using SSH) to access the Console menu.
6.
Select Shells > Boot
7. Issue the following command: parted /dev/Xda resizepart
Letter X might vary on different systems. Usually it is 's' or 'v'. Check your system
before issuing this command.
8. Answer the on-screen questions with the following answers:
Shell.
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