As a virtual environment manager, you will eventually encounter a problem of lack of disk space on one of the many disks. You will have two choices. The first is to clean up by cleaning up logs and temporary files. The second, the laziest one, to add space to the virtual disks concerned. This is the option chosen here.

List the utilization percentage of your disks

First, you must have access to your vCenter console or via SSH. When connecting, launch bash by typing the shell command and then check for space using the df -h command.

The command will show all mount points. Each is associated with a virtual disk. A list of the association of mount points to disks is detailed at the end of the article.

shell
df -f

Adding space to your disks

In your vCenter, edit the virtual machine of your vCenter, in hard disks, select the disk that needs to be increased, then add space. In general, add at most double the space initially configured or according to the available in your infrastructure. Repeat for each of the discs concerned then save your modifications.

Again, go to the command prompt of your vCenter to extend the space. Use the following command :

vpxd_servicecfg storage lvm autogrow

You will have a confirmation of the successful command with the display of the result.

VC_CFG_RESULT=0

Then check the disk space again with the df -h command. In our example I added 25GB. We see that our mount point now has 63% free space.

Lists of VMDKs/Partitions for vCenter Server

List of VMDKs for a vCenter Server Appliance 7.0

List of VMDKs for a vCenter Server Appliance 6.7

List of VMDKs for a vCenter Server Appliance 6.5