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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 CLI command. 

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Adding Additional Space to the Partition
Adding Additional Space to the Partition
Adding Additional Space to the Partition

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  1. Add additional HDD to the NetMRI VM.
  2. Reboot the NetMRI VM.
  3. In the administrative shell, run the provisiondisk  commandcommand.

Migrating from a Physical Appliance to a Virtual Machine 

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  1. Upload the hotfix physical-to-vm-assistance.gpg on the physical appliance.
  2. Run the script using the diag command.
  3. 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.
  4. Set up the VM using the latest image from NetMRI.
  5. Create the additional HDD with the recommended space (based on the diag script diag script output noted above) and attach it to the VM using NetMRI.
  6. Reboot the NetMRI VM.
  7. Log in to the admin CLI. The default username is “admin” and the default password is “admin”.
  8. Using the provisiondisk commandthe provisiondisk command, expand the size of each partition in accordance with the diag script output noted above.
  9. Create a database backup on the hardware appliance.
  10. Restore the database from the backup to the VM appliance.