How to extend Automation drive partitions.

Products

• VCF Automation

Issue/Introduction

If drive partitions are full or in need of expanding such as applying a patch or upgrade.

Example:  Attempting to apply Aria Automation 8.18.1 Update 3 patch, Aria Lifecycle Manager prechecks indicate there is not enough space in the root (/) partition of all three nodes to apply patch (30GB required). 

Environment

Automation 8.1x

Cause

Need more space to apply patch or upgrade Automation nodes.

Resolution

Snapshots of all Automation appliances is recommended prior to making any changes.

 

1.  Determine drive space used and identify partition to extend.

vracli disk-mgr

 

2.  Identify partition to extend by size.

 

Example of output:

auto01 [ ~ ]# vracli disk-mgr
/dev/sda4(/):
        Total size: 47.80GiB
        Free: 31.04GiB(64.9%)
        Available(for non-superusers): 28.58GiB(59.8%)
        SCSI ID: (0:0)
/dev/sdb(/data):
        Total size: 140.68GiB
        Free: 113.55GiB(80.7%)
        Available(for non-superusers): 106.34GiB(75.6%)
        SCSI ID: (0:1)
/dev/sdc(/var/log):
        Total size: 21.48GiB
        Free: 8.42GiB(39.2%)
        Available(for non-superusers): 7.31GiB(34.0%)
        SCSI ID: (0:2)
/dev/sdd(/home):
        Total size: 30.34GiB
        Free: 20.86GiB(68.8%)
        Available(for non-superusers): 19.30GiB(63.6%)
        SCSI ID: (0:3)

 

3.  In vCenter edit the Automation nodes and extend the drive to the desired size.

 

4.  Return to Automation nodes and execute:

vracli disk-mgr resize

 

5.  Validate the drive sizes have now extended.

 

Additional Information

Also included in the documentation.

https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-cis/aria/aria-automation/8-18/vmware-aria-automation-on-prem-administering-8-18/maintaining-your-appliance/increase-appliance-disk.html