Increase the System Disk for Panorama on an ESXi Server

(

Best Practice

) Save and Export Panorama and Firewall Configurations.

Save and export your Panorama and firewall configuration to ensure you can recover Panorama if you encounter any issues.

Access the VMware vSphere Client and navigate to your Panorama virtual appliance.

Right-click the Panorama virtual appliance and select

Power

Power Off

.

Add the new 224GB system disk.

Right-click the Panorama virtual appliance and

Edit Settings

.

Select

New Hard Disk

as the

New Device

and

Add

the new device.

Configure the new hard disk with 224GB and click

OK

.



Right-click the Panorama virtual appliance and select

Power

Power On

.

Panorama may take up to 30 minutes to initialize the new system disk. During this time the Panorama web interface and CLI are unavailable.

Migrate disk data from the old system disk to the new system disk.

In this example, we are migrating to the newly added system disk labeled sdb.

Log in to the Panorama CLI.

Enter the following command to view the available system disks for migration:

admin>
 request system clone-system-disk target ? 

Migrate the disk data to the new system disk using the following command:

admin>
 request system clone-system-disk target sdb 

Enter

Y

when prompted to begin the disk migration.

To begin the migration, Panorama reboots and takes at least 20 minutes to complete the disk migration. During this time the Panorama web interface and CLI are unavailable.

Monitor the disk migration from the web Console. Continue to the next step only after Panorama displays the following message to indicate the disk migration is complete.



Delete the old system disk.

Access the VMware vSphere Client and navigate to your Panorama virtual appliance.
Right-click the Panorama virtual appliance and select
Power
Power Off
.
Right-click the Panorama virtual appliance and
Edit Settings
.
Delete the old 81GB system disk and click
OK
.

Modify the Virtual Device Node for the new system disk.

Expand the settings options for the new system disk.

Select

SCSI(0:0)

as the

Virtual Device Node

.

Click

OK

to save your configuration changes.



Right-click the Panorama virtual appliance and select

Power

Power On

.

Verify that you successfully migrated to the new system disk.

Log in to the Panorama CLI.

Enter the following command to view the system disk partitions.

You must add the

/dev/root

,

/dev/sda5

,

/dev/sda6

, and

/dev/sda8

partitions to confirm the disk size is increased.

admin>
 show system disk-space