Adding a virtual hard disk and expanding the logical volume Add the virtual harddisk to the machine: Shutdown the server Enter the VMWare Server Console as the VM Creator account Right Click the VM > Settings On bottom left, click Add Enter configuration wizard Select Hard Disk Select SCSI Determine size (4 GB, 4096 MB) Do not select pre-allocation Do not select to split into multiple files Boot the Server Verify the new drive exists in the system by listing disks and partition tables: fdisk -l Create a physical volume: pvcreate /dev/sdb Extend VolumeGroup into /dev/sdb vgextend VolGroup00 /dev/sdb Expand logical volume into the exta volume group sapce lvextend -L +4000M /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 Resize filesystem to fit volume: resize2fs /dev/VoLGroup00/LogVol00 View LogVol00 disk usage and available space: df -h