To accommodate flexible deployment scenarios, the following guidelines provide information about the required sizes of partitions based on the number of devices and interfaces.
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Any available storage remains unused until you assign it. To resize the partitions to match the table above, use the provisiondisk CLI command. |
Anchor Adding Additional Space to the Partition Adding Additional Space to the Partition
Adding Additional Space to the Partition
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| Adding Additional Space to the Partition |
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- Add additional HDD to the NetMRI VM.
- Reboot the NetMRI VM.
- In the administrative shell, run the provisiondisk command.
Migrating from a Physical Appliance to a Virtual Machine
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- Upload the hotfix physical-to-vm-assistance.gpg on the physical appliance.
- Run the script using the diag command.
- Copy the script's output to a notepad or another suitable location. The script output provides the recommended partition sizes. When setting up the VM, you will require the recommended partition sizes.
- Set up the VM using the latest image from NetMRI.
- Create the additional HDD with the recommended space (based on the diag script output noted above) and attach it to the VM using NetMRI.
- Reboot the NetMRI VM.
- Log in to the admin CLI. The default username is “admin” and the default password is “admin”.
- Using the provisiondisk command, expand the size of each partition in accordance with the diag script output noted above.
- Create a database backup on the hardware appliance.
- Restore the database from the backup to the VM appliance.