Expand disk or add new disk to big-ip VE

Mm... 3 only resizes the PV. That's not really what the user needs. And not really necessary.

Because the VE is a Linux host at heart (Running a separate process called TMM that is the actual BigIP micro-kernel), we get the advantage of all Linux systems. Namely LVM (Logical Volume Manager).

It's not a supported function to add disk space, but I've done it myself. The biggest issue is that you can't resize the FS on the fly. (Or couldn't in the version I was doing it on).

If you don't know Linux, and have a Linux admin handy, grab them for some moral support. Make sure your VM is backed up (A VMWare Snapshot should do it) and then start.

I'll keep this vague... High level instructions only...

1. Add a new PV (Physical Volume) to the VG (Volume Group).
2. With your increased size of VG you can extend the size of the LV (Logical Volume) that the FS sits on
3. Boot the VE into single user
4. run resizefs to increase the size of the FS to match the (Now larger) size of the LV
5. Boot back to multi-user

In theory you can resize on the fly. In practice that didn't work for me because the system wanted it offline for some reason (Sorry, can't remember why exactly at the moment. I'd need to run through it again, it's possible it just wanted to do an fsck first).

There's info on resizing an ext3 filesystem (Online) here if you want it (You do need to add extra space to the VG first though because on mine there's only 2GB free in the VG) -> http://backdrift.org/online-ext3-grow-resize-with-lvm