3.3 Post-Deployment Tasks

The minimum disk space required for a virtual machine to deploy ZENworks Appliance is 50 GB. Depending on your requirement, you can increase the disk space after deploying ZENworks Appliance by performing the tasks in the following sections:

3.3.1 Creating a New Hard Disk

  1. Start the VMware VSphere Client application.

  2. Right-click the virtual machine on which you have deployed ZENworks Appliance, then click Edit Settings.

  3. In the Virtual Machine Properties dialog box, click Add to launch the Add Hardware Wizard.

  4. On the Select a Device page, select Hard Disk, then click Next.

  5. On the Select a Disk page, click Create a new virtual disk, then click Next.

  6. On the Create a Disk page, do the following:

    1. Specify the disk capacity.

    2. Specify whether you want to use the thin provisioning or clustering support feature.

    3. Select the location as either Store with the virtual machine or Specify a datastore.

    4. (Conditional) If you select the Specify a datastore option, browse for and select the datastore location.

      The new hard disk is stored in the same folder along with the other virtual machine files on that datastore.

    5. Click Next.

  7. (Optional) On the Advanced Options page, specify the advanced options for the new virtual disk, then click Next.

  8. On the Ready to Complete page, review the summary, then click Finish.

  9. Continue with Partitioning and Configuring a New Hard Disk.

3.3.2 Partitioning and Configuring a New Hard Disk

  1. Use the YaST Partitioner to partition the new hard disk that you created in Creating a New Hard Disk.

    For more information on how to partition a new hard disk by using the YaST Partitioner, see Using the YaST Partitioner in the SLES 10 SP2 Installation and Administration Guide.

  2. On the machine to which you have deployed ZENworks Appliance, open a terminal and run the following command to stop all the running services:

    novell-zenworks-configure -c Start

  3. Take a backup of the /var/opt/novell/zenworks directory that contains the ZENworks data into the /var/opt/novell/zenworks.bak directory by running the following command:

    mv /var/opt/novell/zenworks /var/opt/novell/zenworks.bak

  4. Mount the new hard disk partition at the /var/opt/novell/zenworks directory.

    For more information on how to mount a hard disk partition, see Using the YaST Partitioner in the SLES 10 SP2 Installation and Administration Guide.

  5. Move the files from the /var/opt/novell/zenworks.bak directory to the /var/opt/novell/zenworks directory by running the following command:

    mv /var/opt/novell/zenworks.bak/* /var/opt/novell/zenworks

  6. Change the ownership of the /var/opt/novell/zenworks directory to zenworks by running the following command:

    chown -R zenworks:zenworks /var/opt/novell/zenworks

  7. Provide Read and Execute permissions to others, and full permission to the group and owner of the /var/opt/novell/zenworks directory by running the following command:

    chmod -R 775 /var/opt/novell/zenworks

  8. Restart the services by running the following command:

    novell-zenworks-configure -c Start