Re: Instance with a larger disk size then Template

[Dag Sonstebo]

Hi Imran,

If you create a VM from template then the root disk adopts the size of the 
original template – and the disk size your select is for *additional data 
disks*. So you probably now how a 5GB root disk and a 300GB data disk attached.

In that case you should no use LVM to extend the root partition if you ever 
want to rely on volume snapshots. There is no mechanism in CloudStack to 
exactly time snapshots of two disks part of the same volume group – hence you 
can never use this for recovery.

All in all CloudStack works on the premise that your VM system volume resides 
on a single disk – hence you will run into problems if you go outside these 
boundaries. Your best bet is to either 1) build from ISO and select the 300GB 
disk – which will now apply to the root disk, or 2) resize your root disk and 
use the LVM processes described in the other emails to expand into the free 
space.

Regards,
Dag Sonstebo
Cloud Architect
ShapeBlue

On 03/08/2017, 11:15, "Imran Ahmed" <im...@eaxiom.net> wrote:

    Hi Dag,
    
    Thanks for  your prompt reply.   During the creation of new instance I set 
the size of root disk to 300G. Once the instance was created , the device 
/dev/vda was created with 300G size.  However the LVM partition still shows 5G 
size.  (same is shown under in df -h)
    
    Regards,
    
    Imran  
    
    -----Original Message-----
    From: Dag Sonstebo [mailto:dag.sonst...@shapeblue.com] 
    Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2017 3:08 PM
    To: users@cloudstack.apache.org
    Subject: Re: Instance with a larger disk size then Template
    
    Hi Imran,
    
    Can you elaborate – you say your template had a 5GB root disk. Did you 
resize this, or did you add a disk?
    
    If you resized it then all you need to do is use your LVM and filesystem 
tools to expand your partition. 
    
    Regards,
    Dag Sonstebo
    Cloud Architect
    ShapeBlue
    
    On 03/08/2017, 11:00, "Imran Ahmed" <im...@eaxiom.net> wrote:
    
        Hi All,
        
        I am creating an instance with a 300GB disk from a CentOS 7 template 
that
        has 5GB disk (LVM Based).
        The issue is that the root LVM partition inside the new VM instance  
still
        shows 5GB .  
        
        The device size  (/dev/vda) however shows 300GB.  The question is what 
is
        the best strategy to resize the root LVM partition so that I could use 
all
        300G.
        
        Kind regards,
        
        Imran 
        
        
    
    
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