Technical Tip: Expand the Hard Drive Capacity in the FortiNAC VM

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Description	This article describes how to increase the hard drive size in a FortiNAC virtual appliance.
Scope	FortiNAC.
Solution	From the Console of the Virtual Appliance: Power off the virtual machine (VM) whose disk space needs to be increased. Remove all snapshots. Snapshots must be removed before increasing the hard drive size in vSphere. Back up or create a copy of the guest operating system. Navigate to the Hardware tab in the VM settings and adjust the hard drive size. For example, set the new size to 100 GB. Reboot the virtual appliance. After Reboot: Once the system has restarted, log in as the root user via SSH or a console window to continue with the configuration. Shut down the FortiNAC processes: > shutdownCampusMgr Verify the disk space, physical volumes, partitions, volume groups, and logical volumes being used. > df -lh Verify the Physical Volumes. In this example, physical volume /dev/sda2 is part of the CentOS system. > pvs Verify Partition: > fdisk –l –u /dev/sda Verify Volume Groups: > vgdisplay Verify Logical volumes: > lvdisplay Create a Primary Partition for newly allocated space with type 8e: > fdisk /dev/sda Reboot the VM: > reboot Verify the new partition: > fdisk -l -u Create a new Physical Volume for a new space that was added: > pvcreate /dev/sda3 Extend the volume group by adding the physical volume that was created in step 10: > vgextend centos /dev/sda3 Verify available free space in the Volume group: > vgdisplay centos Verify the name of the logical volume path to extend: > lvdisplay Extend the logical volume by adding free space to the volume group: > lvextend -L+50G /dev/centos/root Verify new logical volume size: > lvdisplay Resize the Centos file system: > xfs_growfs /dev/centos/root Verify the disk space: > df -lh