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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

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

create a new Partition that is compatible to LVM

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
Extend the Volumegroup (vg).
first check for the group with "vgs" then "vgextend centos" then check again:
now extend the Logival Volume (lv)
first check for the Volume with "vgs" then "lvextend" then check again:
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resize filesystem
now in order to actually use the additional space we need to resize the filesystem.
first check the existing file system
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then actually resize the file system
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and check again:
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