(Virtual Appliances Only) Increasing Available Disk Space

For virtual appliances running ESXi 5.5 and VMFS 5, you can allocate more than 2TB of disk space. For appliances running ESXi 5.1, the limit is 2 TB.

Note
Disk space reduction in ESXi is not supported. See the VMWare documentation for information.

To add disk space to the virtual appliance instance:

Before you begin

Carefully determine the disk space increase needed.

Procedure

Step 1

Bring down the Cisco Content Security Management appliance instance.

Step 2

Increase disk space using utilities or administrative tools provided by VMWare.

See information about changing the virtual disk configuration in the VMWare documentation.

Information for ESXi 5.5 is available here: http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-55/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.hostclient.doc%2FGUID-81629CAB-72FA-42F0-9F86-F8FD0DE39E57.html

Step 3

[New Web Interface Only] On the Security Management appliance, click to load the legacy web interface.

Step 4

Go to Management Appliance > System Administration > Disk Managementand verify that your change has taken effect.