I recently had to connect two 4TB sata disks to a server to provide some raw storage to the network. Going on past experiences I didn’t want to virtualise the disks but rather present them to the virtual machine guest as a raw device mapping (RDM). You will need a separate datastore that is separate… Read more »
Adding disk to Linux
I recently had to add a new virtualised disk to a VM guest without having to reboot, lucky for me it required a single disk with a single full partition. This Example In this example I am attaching a virtual vmdk disk to a virtual machine on VMware ESX. This is the second disk added so… Read more »
Creating volumes with GPartd on Linux
There is a simple way of creating partitions on a Linux server if you have the option to turn the server off during the process. GPartd can be booted to give you a simple GUI interface to manage all disks attached to the Linux server in either a physical or virtual capacity. Download GPartd from… Read more »
Sharing .VMDKs on VM’s in VMware ESX
Recently I had to create a vmdk disk to share between two Microsoft Clustering servers. The purposes was to be utilised for a Quorum disk and found it isn’t as simple as creating a disk and attaching to the other host. This was done on a Microsoft 2008 R2 Server however it is dependent on… Read more »
Expand LVM Volume on Linux
Overview Logical Volume Manager (LVM) is a logical volume manager for the Linux Kernel; it manages disk drivers and similar mass-storage devices. The term “volume” refers to a disk drive or partition thereof. Assumptions This document assumes LVM is installed on the following Linux (LVM-aware) distributions: Arch Linux CrunchBang CentOS Debian Fedora Gentoo Mandriva… Read more »
