(Your VM) > Edit virtual machine settings > Hardware > Hard Disk (SCSI) > Utilities > Expand > Maximum disk size. (Your VM) > Summary > Commands > Edit Settings > Hardware > Hard Disk 1 > Capacity > New Size.įor VMware Player, the disk size setting can be found using the following options on the overview page: The virtual disk size setting you need can be found under: It is recommended that you shutdown and power the VM off before resizing the virtual disk. If you are using another hypervisor like Hyper-V or VirtualBox then these settings will be slightly different from the steps below. The first step is to modify the amount of disk space VMware is allocating to your Nagios image. It is recommended that you shutdown and power the VM off before taking a snapshot. It is not possible to take a snapshot before adding the extra disk space, the virtual technology does not provide this capability. However a snapshot can only be done once you add extra disk space to the virtual hard disk (the first step in this guide).

We strongly recommended that you make proper backups of your Nagios server before proceeding.Ī snapshot of your virtual machine is one method to provide a way to 'go back' if something goes wrong. The actions required to resize the virtual machine are potentially destructive by nature. Version 7 will output something like: CentOS Linux release (Core) Version 6 will output something like: CentOS release 6.9 (Final)

If you are unsure what version of CentOS your VM is running on you can execute the following command: cat /etc/centos-release Nagios Log Server - Resizing The VM Disk Size.Nagios Network Analyzer - Resizing The VM Disk Size.

Nagios Fusion - Resizing The VM Disk Size.

If you are using a CentOS 6 VM then there is separate documentation for those VM's as each product had slightly different disk configurations: This KB article works on any of the CentOS 7 VMs as they have identical disk configurations. This documentation is specifically for the CentOS 7 VM's available for download from the Nagios Enterprises website for each of the following products:

This KB article describes how to increase the size of a Nagios virtual machine (VM) disk.

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