Add a Virtual Disk to Panorama on an ESXi Server

Add additional disks to Panorama
In all modes, the first logging disk on the Panorama VM must be at least 2TB in order to add additional disks. If the first logging disk is smaller than 2TB, you will be unable to add additional disk space.
Access the VMware vSphere Client and select
Virtual Machines
.
Right-click the Panorama virtual appliance and select
Power
Power off
.
Right-click the Panorama virtual appliance and select
Edit Settings
.
Click
Add
in the
Hardware
tab to launch the Add Hardware wizard.
Select
Hard Disk
as the hardware type and click
Next
.
Create a new virtual disk
and click
Next
.
Set the
Disk Size
. If the Panorama virtual appliance is in Panorama mode, set the size to at least 2TB. If the appliance is in Legacy mode, you can set the size to as much as 8TB.
In Panorama mode, you can add disk sizes larger than 2TB and Panorama will automatically create as many 2TB partitions as possible. For example, if disk sdc was 24TB, it will create 12 2TB partitions. These disks will be named sdc1-12.
Select the
Disk Provisioning
format and click
Next
.
Specify a datastore or datastore structure
,
Browse
to a datastore with enough space for the specified
Disk Size
, click
OK
, and click
Next
.
Select a SCSI
Virtual Device Node
(you can use the default selection) and click
Next
.
The selected node must be in SCSI format; Panorama will fail to boot if you select another format.
Verify that the settings are correct and then click
Finish
and
OK
.
The new disk appears in the list of devices for the virtual appliance.
Repeat Step 4 through Step 11 to add additional disks to the Panorama virtual appliance if necessary.
Right click the Panorama virtual appliance and select
Power
Power On
. The virtual disk initializes for first-time use. The size of the new disk determines how long initialization takes.
Configure each disk.
The following example uses the sdc virtual disk.
Log in to the Panorama CLI.
Enter the following command to view the disks on the Panorama virtual appliance:
show system disk details
The user will see the following response:
	Name : sdb 
	State : Present 
	Size : 2048 MB 
	Status : Available 
	Reason : Admin enabled 
	Name : sdc 
	State : Present 
	Size : 2048 MB 
	Status : Available 
	Reason : Admin disabled
Enter the following command and confirm the request when prompted for all disks with the
Reason : Admindisabled
response:
request system disk add sdc
Enter the
show system disk details
command to monitor the status of the disk addition. Continue to Step 3 when all newly added disk responses display
Reason : Adminenabled
.
Make disks available for logging.
Log in to the Panorama web interface.
Select
Panorama
Managed Collectors
and edit the Log Collector.
Select
Disks
and Add each newly added disk.
Click
OK
.
Select
Commit
Commit and Push
and
Commit and Push
your changes.
Configure Panorama to receive logs.
This step is intended for new Panorama deployments in Panorama mode. If you are adding logging disks to an existing Panorama virtual appliance, continue to Step 5.
Configure a Managed Collector.
Configure a Collector Group.
Configure Log Forwarding to Panorama.
Verify that the Panorama Log Storage capacity has been increased.
Log in to the Panorama web interface.
Select
Panorama
Collector Groups
and select the Collector Group that the Panorama virtual appliance belongs to.
Verify that the
Log Storage
capacity accurately displays the disk capacity.