VMware vSphere Client managed hard disk expansion for virtual machines

Some time ago with VMware VSphere Client management of several virtual machines, due to the need to set up the PTF server, the capacity of the hard disk is obviously not enough to expand, access to a portion of the data, it is difficult to find in an article a complete

Solution, please tidy up.

System: CENTOS7

Management software: VMware vSphere Client

The first step: virtual machine power off, virtual machines to the physical expansion.

Before expansion:

Physical expansion of power to 150g

It is not actively mounted to the system when power is restarted. Not actively mounted.

2. Start the feast.

Physically already exists and begins operation.

3.

Command FDISK/DEV/SDA

n Create a new partition

P because it is Linux with LVM management disk, select p otherwise choose E

3 default

Enter default

Enter default

After execution, p view the execution results

Not yet converted to LVM format, continue operation

Command T convert disk

3

8e conversion to LVM

P View Effects, W save.

Execution complete

End the first paragraph of work, reboot the machine.

4. Start creating partitions

First look at the disk condition

View the disk to add the expanded disk to the appropriate disk volume, depending on the situation

View remaining disk space headroom: Vgdisplay CentOS remaining 70.6 space

Adding new disk space to the CentOS logical volume

Lvextend-l +70g/dev/centos/root

5. The final step

Xfs_growfs/dev/mapper/centos-root

You can not use RESIZE2FS or error

Resize2fs:bad magic number in Super-block cannot find a valid file system Super block when attempting to open/dev/centos/root.

Perform

Parted

Command: