Expand Dell RAID/Make available to Virtualizor (LVM)

Dell RAID Reconfiguration

  1. Start OMSA with srvadmin-services.sh start and login

  2. Open Storage -> Virtual Disks

  3. Reconfigure chosen array

  4. Add the drives that you added physically to the server then start the process

  5. wait an eternity for the RAID to finish reconfiguring

CentOS Partition Expansion

  1. echo > /sys/class/block/sda/device/rescan

  2. gdisk /dev/sda

  3. option r

  4. option e

  5. option w

  6. fdisk /dev/sda

  7. option d - delete virtualizor LVM partition

  8. option n - recreate with new expanded end sector

  9. option w

Inform OS of size change

partprobe /dev/sda

LVM VG Resize

  1. Note old size with pvdisplay /dev/sda4

  2. pvresize /dev/sda4

  3. Check with pvdisplay /dev/sda4

LV and File System Resize (if needing to manually resize an LV)

  1. lvextend -l +100%FREE /dev/centos/home

  2. xfs_growfs /dev/centos/home (if using XFS, check with df -Th)

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