Increase the System Disk for Panorama on Google Cloud Platform

(

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.

Log in to the Google Cloud Console.

In

VM Instances

,

Stop

the Panorama VM instance.

Add the new 224GB system disk.

Select the Panorama VM instance and select

Edit

.

In the

Additional disks

section

Add new disk

.

Configure the new disk with 224GB and click

OK

.



In

VM Instances

,

Start

the Panorama VM instance.

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 by attempting to log in to the Panorama CLI. The Panorama management server is in maintenance mode after the system disk migration is completed and will allow you to log in to the Panorama CLI while in maintenance mode.

Attach the new 224GB system disk.

In
VM Instances
,
Stop
the Panorama VM instance.
Select the Panorama VM instance and select
Edit
.
In the
Additional disks
section, detach the new 224GB system disk.
In the
Boot Disk
section, detach the old 81GB system disk.
In the
Boot Disk
section,
Add item
and select the new 224GB system disk.
Save
your configuration changes.

In

VM Instances

,

Start

the Panorama VM instance.

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