How to extend root filesystem on VMWARE or Oracle VMWARE

1. MUKUL, MONOWAR 1
EXTEND ROOT FILESYSTEM – ORACLE VMWARE
Shutdown the server
# shutdown -h now
select the machine racdb01, click Settings -> Storage.
Select Controller SATA and click on the Add Hard Disk button:

2. MUKUL, MONOWAR 2
EXTEND ROOT FILESYSTEM – ORACLE VMWARE
Clickon Create New Disk:

3. MUKUL, MONOWAR 3
EXTEND ROOT FILESYSTEM – ORACLE VMWARE
Put VDI (VirtualBoxDiskImage) selectedandclick Next.
select Fixedsize and click Next.

4. MUKUL, MONOWAR 4
EXTEND ROOT FILESYSTEM – ORACLE VMWARE
Change the location - racdb01 (ASM folder previously created) .
Enter disk name and size | Click Create.
See the Progress
For more DISKS -- Repeat the steps

5. MUKUL, MONOWAR 5
EXTEND ROOT FILESYSTEM – ORACLE VMWARE
 Completed above steps for racdb1 server
Re-partitionVirtual Hard Disk
 Login to virtual machine as root
 Execute below command to check the disk space

6. MUKUL, MONOWAR 6
EXTEND ROOT FILESYSTEM – ORACLE VMWARE
Create a new partion,
Execute the commands in the below sequence.
create physical & logical volumes.
pvcreate command to create physical volume
vgdisplay command to get the name of current Volume Group

7. MUKUL, MONOWAR 7
EXTEND ROOT FILESYSTEM – ORACLE VMWARE
Extend the Volume Group
+ with /dev/sdb3
Get Logical Volume path.

8. MUKUL, MONOWAR 8
EXTEND ROOT FILESYSTEM – ORACLE VMWARE
Extend the Logical Volume
+ with /dev/sda3
Update the Logical Volume
Find out that LVM is using xfs as their file system.
NOTE: So instead of using the resize2fs command I had to use the xfs_growfs command.

9. MUKUL, MONOWAR 9
EXTEND ROOT FILESYSTEM – ORACLE VMWARE
Validate