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Make Disk visible to the OVA

• SSH into the CentOS OVA and sudo to root (unless you are already root)

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  sudo su -

• List the block device to see the newly assigned vSphere hard disk.

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  lsblk

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  If you do not see the vSphere hard disk, force a rescan

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  for host in $(ls -1d /sys/class/scsi_host/*); do echo "- - -" > ${host}/scan ; done for device in $(ls -1d /sys/class/scsi_disk/*); do echo "1" > ${device}/device/rescan ; done

• Format the disk partition. Get the device name from the previous lsblk output
  

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  fdisk /dev/sdb n (new partition) p (primary) (Press ENTER) (Use default partition number) (Press ENTER) (Use default first sector) (Press ENTER) (Use default last sector) t (change the partition type) 8e (Linux LVM) w (write)

• Create the Physical Volume for LVM and check afterwards with pvs
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• Extend the Volumegroup (vg).
  first check for the group with "vgs" then "vgextend centos" then check again:
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