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Getting Started with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

You're reading from   Getting Started with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Leverage powerful Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization solutions to build your own IaaS cloud

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2014
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ISBN-13 9781782167402
Length 178 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Pradeep Subramaniaan Pradeep Subramaniaan
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Preface 1. An Overview of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization FREE CHAPTER 2. Installing RHEV Manager and Hypervisor Hosts 3. Setting Up the RHEV Virtual Infrastructure 4. Creating and Managing Virtual Machines 5. Virtual Machine and Host High Availability 6. Advanced Storage and Networking Features 7. Quota and User Management 8. Managing a Virtualization Environment from the Command Line 9. Troubleshooting RHEV 10. Setting Up iSCSI, NFS, and IdM Directory Services for RHEV Index

Virtual disk resize


In RHEV 3.3 and later, one can perform a resize of a virtual guest disk without taking the downtime of the virtual guest so that users don't have to change application or data locations that run on those virtual machines. To perform an online virtual disk resize of the running guest, perform these steps:

  1. Log in to the Administrator console and navigate to the Virtual machines tab.

  2. Select the appropriate virtual machine and navigate to Disks at the bottom pane of the selected virtual machine.

  3. Select the disk and click on Edit. Under Extend size by(GB), type the disk size in GB to be added to extend the existing virtual disk size (as shown in the following diagram). Note that the target disk status should be changed to Locked status during the time when it's being resized, and then changed to OK after its been resized.

  4. Online virtual disk resize is not supported for floating or shareable disks, and shrinking the virtual disk is also not supported.

Alternatively, if application...

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