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provisiondisk command

Use the provisiondisk command to extend the NetMRI VM storage per volume.

The NetMRI volumes and their sizes are displayed on the Settings icon > Database Settings > Storage Management page. For more information, see Storage Management.

Caution

You cannot undo the storage extension.

Warning

Do not detach hard disks that you already attached and added to the NetMRI storage. This may result in a broken NetMRI appliance.

Syntax

The following is the command syntax:

provisiondisk

Example

hostname> provisiondisk                                                                                                                                                                                                
Do you want to provision disks? (y/n) [n]: y
Unused disks found.
You can select a disk to attach to NetMRI storage:
Please select a disk to add to NetMRI storage (0 to exit provision):
1 /dev/sdb (17612.8 MB)
Enter disk number: 1

*** Adding '/dev/sdb' to NetMRI storage ***
Creating partition: Device /dev/sdb1 has been successfully added to NetMRI storage.
This machine has 23 gigabytes of unused space.
Do you want to extend partitions? (y/n) [n]: y
Please select storage to provision (0 to exit provision):
1 - Backup Storage
2 - Database Storage
3 - Log Storage
4 - Application Storage
5 - Temporary Storage
6 - OS storage
1 - 6 [1]> 3
Space to add to Log Storage in gigabytes. (0 to exit provisioning): 16

Will add 16 GB to Log Storage
Are you sure? This action cannot be undone. (y/n) [n]: y
Shutting down NetMRI: OK
Extending 'log_storage' volume: OK
Resizing filesystem (this may take a while, please be patient): OK

*** Disk space successfully provisioned ***
Starting NetMRI: OK