On-Premises Analytics ESXi Deployment Guide

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Adding External Disk

To add external disk

  1. Navigate to System > Settings. On successfully preparing the system to support external disk, the Settings page will display a message to add external disk.

  2. Navigate to System > Shutdown. Click Shutdown. On prompting for confirmation, click OK.

  3. Bring up the vSphere Client, select the Analytics instance, right-click and click Edit Settings.

  4. Click ADD NEW DEVICE and select Hard Disk.

  5. Enter the size of the New Hard disk, refer to IPFIX Based Licensing Model on recommendations in size and click OK.

  6. Add and mount the storage. Follow steps 1 to 6 under Configuring On-Premises Analytics on ESXi.

  7. Login to the Analytics UI using the IPV4 address, username and password.

  8. Navigate to System > Status. Verify that the added storage is displayed in Available Disk Space on Data Partition.