Sunday, August 28, 2016

Adding space to VMware Virtual Disk for running Ubuntu Server Guest on LVM Partition

I have been testing methods for adding space to an Ubuntu Server guest running on VMware. I have setup the server using LVM so I can add physical disks to to the LVM group and expand the logical volume on the system without having to shut it down.


What I am testing right now and having trouble with is rather than adding a second virtual disk, I extended the existing virtual disk using the VMware client and it appears that it worked, but I cannot figure out how to get Ubuntu server to recognize the additional space without a reboot. I have tried rescanning the scsi hosts using the command below as I would in order to add the 2nd virtual hard disk, but that doesn't appear to do anything.


Command to scan for added hard drive:
echo "- - -" > /sys/class/scsi_host/host2/scan


Any ideas? I am trying to figure out if this is possible so I don't have to keep adding multiple virtual hard drives every time I need more space and instead just make the existing drive bigger.


Thanks in advance for any help!

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