VM Edition : possible to extand HDD ?

[YBeaujean]

Hello,

I'm a new customer of the Starface VM Edition with Licence.
I have downloaded the VM template and put it on my vmWare Infrastructure.
It is all OK.
But the VM as a HDD size of 60GB.
I want to put 200GB available, so before first run, I expand the vmWare HDD size.

But Starface VM just use the inital 60GB...

Is it possible to expand the HDD size ?

[nucom]

Hello YBeaujean

The underlying Centos Linux needs to expand the Partition.

This has to be done via console (CTRL + ALT + F2) in the VM Console(Where the SF Says You may now Access the web-based...) and Log-In as the Root User, with the Password you gave him. Or via SSH-Access

Or you create a new Virtual MAchine with a 200GB HD, reinstall the Starface there, Create a Backup on the old Starface VM (Admin Console ==> Server == >Backup) and recover it in the initial Setup of the second VM.

Sincerly Fabian95qw

[YBeaujean]

Hello YBeaujean

The underlying Centos Linux needs to expand the Partition.

This has to be done via console (CTRL + ALT + F2) in the VM Console(Where the SF Says You may now Access the web-based...) and Log-In as the Root User, with the Password you gave him. Or via SSH-Access

Or you create a new Virtual MAchine with a 200GB HD, reinstall the Starface there, Create a Backup on the old Starface VM (Admin Console ==> Server == >Backup) and recover it in the initial Setup of the second VM.

Sincerly Fabian95qw

Hello,
I have downloaded the VM Appliance for vmWare, so I have no root user... ?

For the second choice, I have upload the vm Template and change to 200GB the HDD before any first start of the VM. But this change has not been ok. In the Starface stats I have only the initial 60GB

[YBeaujean]

With : https://knowledge.starface.de/pages/...pageId=6128203

I found the root password... Sorry...

So I will search for the expand command...
Or if you have it ? thanks

[YBeaujean]

I have this :


So what the CLI command to expand ?
I test maximize partition but it is not ok.
Beacause the swap it is not at this end and block the possibility of expand ?

[nucom]

Hello YBeau

In that case it won't be possible to expand the Partition without additional Tools. (Like Gparted)

As i said it would be easier to just make a Backup, reinstall the VM with the newest .ISO, and restore the Backup afterwards.

The Download can be found here: https://www.starface.de/de/Downloads...417_x86_64.iso

If you're keen on using Gparted to expand the Parition you could look at this How to Increase the size of a Linux LVM by expanding the virtual machine disk


Sincerly Fabian

[YBeaujean]

OK thanks a lot.
But why propose a VM template if it is not customizable ?
The ISO installed CentOS and Starface ?

Which is better between the ISO than the VM Template ? The VM version is only for test ?

[nucom]

Hallo YBeau

The ISO Installs the Centos + Starface.

The VM-Template is just a preisntalled ISO file.

Sincerly

Fabian