Technical Tip: How to resize the disk on FortiSandbox-VM

FortiSandbox-VM template comes with a default disk size of 194 GB. Changing the Disk size from the Hypervisor will not take effect immediately. It is necessary to execute the 'resize-hd' command from FortiSandbox CLI in order to use the full capacity.

Related document:

System Commands

Tips:
Create a snapshot from the Hypervisor before running the 'resize-hd' command.

Procedure:

1. Create a snapshot from hypervisor / ESXI (optional, but recommended).
2. Open the console/terminal to the VM from the hypervisor.
3. Log in to FortiSandbox from the Hypervisor console/terminal.
4. Execute the 'resize-hd' command, and press enter.

Request to resize hard disk. Resizing will be done during next bootup.
Do you want to continue? (y/n)y
Request has been accepted.
Reboot?
Do you want to continue? (y/n)y

     5. Monitor the reboot process.

     6. After boot-up is completed, verify using these 2 commands:

hardware-info
status

All of the disk space configured from the hypervisor can be utilized after bootup is complete.