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Final comments:įirstand Secondis for upgrades from 6.5 to 6.7 or 7.0. So you can do this task and go back to the upgrade process and continue without the need to cancel or restart the upgrade process. No need to reboot or power off the vCenter so that the resize takes place. Note: The resizing of any partition in vCenter Appliance 6.7 or 7.0 can be done online. You need to remove any existing snapshots to be able to change the disk size in the settings.Īfter you run the VMware script that is inside of vCenter Appliance for extending the space of the LVM partition: /usr/lib/applmgmt/support/scripts/autogrow.shĪfter running the command, just double-check partitions, and you should see a new size on the partition you just resized. Note: Do not forget if the VM has any snapshots is not possible to edit the disk size. For this case, I will expand the root partition ‘/’ that is VMK1 disk. But it is better and easier to follow the above table.Īgain check your partitions and select the one you need to extend and change in the VM settings. You can also use the command df -h lsblk lsscsito check SCSI ID then trace which SCSI ID will show in the VM edit settings. This is the list of disks, and wich partitions belong to.
#VMWARE 6.0 UPGRADE PATH WINDOWS#
If you are upgrading from a Windows vCenter, if you don’t have space, you need to add extra space to your Windows vCenter disks.Įxpand the root partition or even a different partition to use for the migration files.Įdit your vCenter Appliance VM and change the size of the disk/partition you need to expand. Note: The need to mount an NFS Shared folder for your upgrade is for upgrades from vCenter Appliance 6.5/6.7 or to 7.0. In the upgrade process in the step to select the type of data to migrate, select your option and then select Export Directory and add the share folder that you just mounted.
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Note: Don’t forget to create the NSF Share with proper permissions and use user/pass to mount in your vCenter. In the above commands, I also included the command dd if=/dev/zero of=file_name.txt bs=1MB count=1 to make sure that vCenter can write in the shared folder, if not upgrade will again break. The best option here is to create a temp folder inside the partition and use it for the migration files. In the above example is possible to check that partition /storage/updatemgr/ for vCenter updates (or VUM) has enough space for the temporary migrations files. Even I had some screenshots of some examples I did some time ago. Note: This option I could had proposed when I wrote the blog post, but honestly, I forgot.
#VMWARE 6.0 UPGRADE PATH HOW TO#
How to add extra space to vCenter for the upgrade? I had this many times, so I have many examples and screenshots that I took from several upgrades that I have done. If we continue with the migration, we will get an error almost when it is finishing the upgrade. Login to your vCenter console and check the space. And in this case, the space available is only 4.2Gb. This an example of what type of data will be migrated from the source vCenter.Īs we can see in the above image, we will need a space of at least 8Gb in the root / vCenter partition for the upgrade and is used as a temporary folder for the data migration.
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This is a procedure that needs to be done before you start your upgrade. In this How to add extra space to vCenter for the upgrade, I will explain how to add extra space to your vCenter Appliance before you start the upgrade. If there is no space, we get an error in the upgrade. When we try to upgrade vCenter Appliance if we have much data to migrate from one version to another (this is from 6.5 to 6.7 or 7.0), we need to have enough space in the root partition in the source vCenter Appliance (bear in mind that the upgrade will create a new VCSA VM).