topic Re: Adding 2nd HDD to VM for upgradation in Firewall and Security Management https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/Adding-2nd-HDD-to-VM-for-upgradation/m-p/7811#M371 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>It has it's uses. But always way the impact versus the time involved.</P><P>I have used it in some customer cases as they don't want to loose 2 years worth of log files. But in my lab? I could not care less about them.</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 13 Nov 2017 10:25:05 GMT Hugo_vd_Kooij 2017-11-13T10:25:05Z Adding 2nd HDD to VM for upgradation https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/Adding-2nd-HDD-to-VM-for-upgradation/m-p/7807#M367 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi Team,</P><P></P><P>In my test lab I tried upgrading the GW from r77 to r77.30 and got error of "insufficient space" . So I added the 2nd HDD (21 GB) in the VM and followed the "<SPAN style="font-size: 10.5pt;">sk94671-How to add hardware resources, such as log storage, to a VMware Virtual Machine running Gaia OS"</SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 10.5pt;">I have added the /dev/sda ..and it was recognized by the GAIA. Using the lvm_manager , I could able to extend the "lv_current" partition to 18 GB . But still I am getting the same message upgrading through "CPUSE".</SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Please let me know if I am missing anything which is required.</SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 10.5pt;">I have attached the screenshot for reference..</SPAN></P><P></P><P></P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 24 Oct 2017 08:45:58 GMT https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/Adding-2nd-HDD-to-VM-for-upgradation/m-p/7807#M367 Sharma_Prashant 2017-10-24T08:45:58Z Re: Adding 2nd HDD to VM for upgradation https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/Adding-2nd-HDD-to-VM-for-upgradation/m-p/7808#M368 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>This is really more of an <A href="https://community.checkpoint.com/community/infinity-general/appliances-and-gaia?sr=search&amp;searchId=95094e06-8aed-421a-adbe-d4442e25c720&amp;searchIndex=0" target="_blank">https://community.checkpoint.com/community/infinity-general/appliances-and-gaia?sr=search&amp;searchId=95094e06-8aed-421a-adbe-d4442e25c720&amp;searchIndex=0</A>‌ question.</P><P>FYI, you can attach graphical screenshots (preferable to attaching them in a Word doc).</P><P>If the drive is a VM anyway, why not merely add 20GB to the existing drive and extend the partitions accordingly?</P><P>In any case, 40GB total seems like a small amount of disk space.</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 21 Jun 2019 08:59:16 GMT https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/Adding-2nd-HDD-to-VM-for-upgradation/m-p/7808#M368 PhoneBoy 2019-06-21T08:59:16Z Re: Adding 2nd HDD to VM for upgradation https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/Adding-2nd-HDD-to-VM-for-upgradation/m-p/7809#M369 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>My choice would be to export the lot and create a new machine.</P><P>Getting you partitions right is probably not worth the effort.</P><P>I guess you can live with a fresh machine without historical logs.</P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 28 Oct 2017 18:50:57 GMT https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/Adding-2nd-HDD-to-VM-for-upgradation/m-p/7809#M369 Hugo_vd_Kooij 2017-10-28T18:50:57Z Re: Adding 2nd HDD to VM for upgradation https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/Adding-2nd-HDD-to-VM-for-upgradation/m-p/7810#M370 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>So I can conclude that&nbsp; "&nbsp;<SPAN style="color: #333333; background-color: #ffffff;">sk94671-How to add hardware resources, such as log storage, to a VMware Virtual Machine running Gaia OS" is of no use...!!!</SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 13 Nov 2017 09:45:51 GMT https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/Adding-2nd-HDD-to-VM-for-upgradation/m-p/7810#M370 Sharma_Prashant 2017-11-13T09:45:51Z Re: Adding 2nd HDD to VM for upgradation https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/Adding-2nd-HDD-to-VM-for-upgradation/m-p/7811#M371 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>It has it's uses. But always way the impact versus the time involved.</P><P>I have used it in some customer cases as they don't want to loose 2 years worth of log files. But in my lab? I could not care less about them.</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 13 Nov 2017 10:25:05 GMT https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/Adding-2nd-HDD-to-VM-for-upgradation/m-p/7811#M371 Hugo_vd_Kooij 2017-11-13T10:25:05Z Re: Adding 2nd HDD to VM for upgradation https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/Adding-2nd-HDD-to-VM-for-upgradation/m-p/7812#M372 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>kindly suggest me if I missed any thing during adding the 2nd HDD..</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 13 Nov 2017 10:37:48 GMT https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/Adding-2nd-HDD-to-VM-for-upgradation/m-p/7812#M372 Sharma_Prashant 2017-11-13T10:37:48Z