Managing OS Disks

Overview

Before modifying your VMs’ disks, make sure you have enough resources in your VDC.
Reminder : You can adjust the resources of your VDC independently from the Cloud client area.

Prerequisites

• Access to your VMs
• Configure a VM
• Access to your VDC
• Console mode on the VM you wish to work on

Adding a Disk from vCD

Visit here to learn how to add a disk and configure your VM.

Configuring a Disk on Windows

1. Open a console on your VM.
2. Open Disk Management.
3. Format the new partition or extend an existing partition.

If you encounter the following message: “The disk is offline because of policy set by an administrator,”

Perform the following operations:
From the command line:

diskpart.exe

san policy=OnlineAll

list disk

select disk X

attributes disk clear readonly

attributes disk

online idsk

list disk

1. Restart the Disk Management tool.
2. You can create the new volume.

VMs on Linux

You can follow this documentation to discover the disk and add it to an existing VG (Volume Group) on many flavors of Linux.

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