Increasing Disk Space on the Appliance

After an ESA instance is created, you can increase the disk space on the appliance.
Ensure that the instance is powered off before performing the following steps.

To increase disk space for the ESA on AWS:

1. On the EC2 Dashboard screen, click Volumes under the Elastic Block Store section.

   The Create Volume screen appears.

2. Click the Create Volume button.

   The Create Volume dialog box appears.

3. Enter the required size of the additional disk space in the Size (GiB) text box.

4. Enter the snapshot ID of the instance, for which the additional disk space is required in the Snapshot ID text box.

5. Click the Create button.

   The required additional disk space is created as a volume.

6. Right-click on the additional disk, which is created.

   The pop-up menu appears.

7. Select Attach Volume.

   The Attach Volume dialog box appears.

8. Enter the Instance ID or name tag of the ESA to add the disk space in the Instance text box.

9. Click the Attach button to add the disk space to the required ESA instance.

   The disk space is added to the ESA instance.

10. After the disk space on the ESA instance is added, navigate to Instances under the Instances section.

11. Right-click on the ESA instance in which the disk space was added.

12. Select Instance State > Start.

    The ESA instance is started.

13. After the ESA instance is started, configure the additional storage using the CLI Manager.

    For more information on configuring the additional storage on the ESA, refer to section Installation of Additional Hard Disks.