Veritas NetBackup™ Virtual Appliance Documentation
- Getting to know the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
- NetBackup Virtual Appliance product description
- Preparing to deploy the appliance
- Deploying and configuring the appliance
- How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance combined master and media server
- How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance media server
- How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance master server
- How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance CloudCatalyst
- How to deploy and configure a NetBackup Virtual Appliance combined master and media server
- Post initial configuration procedures
- Appliance common tasks
- Storage management
- About NetBackup Virtual Appliance storage configuration
- About viewing storage space information using the Show command
- About OpenStorage plugin installation
- About NetBackup Virtual Appliance storage configuration
- Deduplication pool catalog backup and recovery
- Network connection management
- Managing users
- About user name and password specifications
- About authenticating LDAP users
- About authenticating Active Directory users
- About authenticating Kerberos-NIS users
- About user authorization on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
- Creating NetBackup administrator user accounts
- Using the appliance
- About configuring Host parameters for your appliance on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
- About Copilot functionality and Share management
- About NetBackup Virtual Appliance as a VMware backup host
- About running NetBackup commands from the appliance
- About mounting a remote NFS
- About Auto Image Replication from a NetBackup Virtual Appliance
- Monitoring the appliance
- About SNMP
- About Call Home
- Appliance security
- About Symantec Data Center Security on the NetBackup Virtual Appliance
- Setting the appliance login banner
- Upgrading the appliance
- About upgrading to NetBackup Virtual Appliance software version 3.2
- Requirements and best practices for upgrading NetBackup appliances
- Methods for downloading appliance software release updates
- NetBackup client upgrades with VxUpdate
- Appliance restore
- Decommissioning and Reconfiguring
- Troubleshooting
- About disaster recovery
- About NetBackup support utilities
- Appliance logging
- Commands overview
- Appendix A. Appliance commands
- Appendix B. Manage commands
- Appendix C. Monitor commands
- Appendix D. Network commands
- Appendix E. Reports commands
- Appendix F. Settings commands
- Appendix G. Support commands
Name
Main > Manage > Storage > Resize — Use to manage the size of a selected partition type of storage.
SYNOPSIS
Resize Partition Size Unit
DESCRIPTION
This command enables you to resize the storage partitions in your appliance. The Resize command can be used for a single storage partition at a time. You can use this command to resize the storage capacity of a partition to a higher or a lower value. The disk storage cannot be expanded to a size that is greater than the unallocated space.
This command is available on the following types of appliances:
Combined master and media server for remote offices and branch offices (ROBO)
Media server for data centers (DC)
Master server
Note:
Shares can only be resized with this command. They cannot be created or deleted. Use the Create and Delete commands to create and delete shares.
See Resizing a partition.
An informational message like the following is displayed when you resize a partition:
The estimated time to resize the partition can range from 0 hours, 2 minutes to 0 hours, 5 minutes depending on the system load. The greater the system load the longer it takes to complete the resize operation.
OPTIONS
- Resize Partition Size Unit
Use to resize the storage partitions, where:
Partition refers to the name of the partition like AdvancedDisk, Catalog, Configuration, MSDP, etc.
Size refers to the size to which you want to resize the partition.
Unit refers to the unit for resizing the partition in (GB/TB/PB).
EXAMPLES
The following example displays the initiated procedure when you run the Resize command.
Storage > Resize AdvancedDisk 1 TB - [Info] Performing sanity check on disks and partitions...(5 mins approx) - [Info] The estimated time to resize the partition can range from 0 hours, 2 minutes to 0 hours, 5 minutes depending on the system load. The greater the system load the longer it takes to complete the resize operation. Do you want to continue? (yes/no) yes - [Info] Shrinking the 'AdvancedDisk' storage partition... - [Warning] No recipients are configured to receive software notifications. Use Main > Settings > Email Software Add command to configure the appropriate email address. - [Info] Succeeded.