How to Configuring the Logical Volume Manager (LVM) in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) VM

Requirements:

      1.    Adding the Additional DISK to the VM using the vCenter

      2.    Creating the logical Volume Manager using SUSE Linux

Solution:

Step1:

Adding a disk to VM,  Right click on the VM and click on the Edit settings

Click on the Add button and from the Add hardware popup select the Hard Disk then Click Next

Select a disk choose the below Radio Button:

Click Next -> Next and Finish.

You can see the Virtual Machine properties New Hard Disk is added.

Step2:

Login to the VM and perform the following instructions:

Rescan-scsi-bus.sh

Lsscsi will give the device information:

 pvcreate /dev/sdc

 vgcreate vg02 /dev/sdc

 lvcreate -l 100%FREE -n lvol01 vg02

 mkfs -t ext3 -m 1 -v /dev/vg02/lvol01

 mkdir /vol01

 chmod 755 /vol01

 cp -p /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.bak

 echo "/dev/vg02/lvol01 /vol01 ext3 defaults  1 2" >> /etc/fstab

 mount –a

Once you done above step execute the df –h which will show you the all mounted filesystem.