Managing OS Disks

Overview

Before modifying the disks of your VMs, remember to check that you have sufficient resources on your VDC.
Reminder : You can adjust the resources of your VDC from the Cloud customer space independently.

Prerequisites

• Access your VMs
• Configure a VM
• Manage the resources of a VDC
• Start and open a VM in console mode

Adding a Disk from vCD

Go here to add a disk and configure your VM

VM with Windows OS

1. Open a console on your VM
2. Open the disk manager
3. format the new partition or extend an existing partition

If however you get the following message : The disk is offline because of policy set by an administrator

Perform the following operations :

From the command line :

1. diskpart.exe
2. san policy=OnlineAll
3. list disk
4. select disk X
5. attributes disk clear readonly
6. attributes disk
7. online idsk
8. list disk

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

VM with Linux OS

You can follow the following documentation to discover the disk and add it to the existing VG.

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