How To Add Disk to Existing Linux VM on Hyper-v and Create New Volume Group

1. Introduction

This post shows screens captured step-by-step to add new disk to existing Linux VM on Hyper-v, create a new volume called "/u01" to oracle.

2. Step-by-Step

This step-by-step is divided into 3 parts:

• Part-I: Configure Hyper-v virtual disk and attach to Linux VM
• Part-II: Configure additional disk as new Logical Volume (LVM)
• Part-III: Configure additional disk as new mount point

In this case we suppose that we need to add a new volume group or mount point /u01 for Oracle Database Installer.

2.1. Part-I: Configure Hyper-v virtual disk and attach to Linux VM

• Edit Hyper-v VM

• Configure VM Disk as follows:

• Start Hyper-v VM:

• Loggin on Linux VM and find out device added:

• Create new disk partition for new device added using FDISK:

2.2. Part-II: Configure additional disk as new Logical Volume (LVM)

• Create Physical Volume for disk partition /dev/sdb2

• Create Volume Group for disk partition /dev/sdb2

• Create Logical Volume:

• Create and format FileSystem for Logical Volume

• Create mount point "/u01" and mount disk manually (only testing)

• Identify blockid to configure fstab to automatically mount point "/u01" on next boot:

2.3. Part-III: Configure additional disk as new mount point

3. References

• http://www.dotsharp.com.br/linux/como-fazer-para-criar-e-gerenciar-um-logical-volume-manager-lvm.html
• http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/virtual-machines-linux-how-to-attach-disk/