Messaging Gateway

I'm running SBG 8 in a VM, recently upgraded from 7.7.  I'm finding that I may have provisioned my hard drive space a little thin to start with, as I'm finding I'm wanting to record more data for reporting, etc.  I've adjusted the size of the virtual hard disk within ESX, but can't seem to figure out how to expand the logical disk on SBG.

 

Any advice?

If you're unable to adjust the size of the hard disk within ESX, how about offloading the reporting data to a SysLog server? You'd be able to lookup info for a greater length of time and gather more reporting info than leaving the data on the SBG box.

I'm currently logging remotely as well... but I'm talking about the data retained for report generation (IP connection, sender domain, etc.)

Unfortunately I believe you will have to reinstall the image. It's gets hard coded to the OS when going through the setup.

What you could do though is run a backup and after your install just import the backup that you saved.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Agree with Tom here.  Run a backup of the current Control Center, shutdown the Control Center.   Set up a new Control Center running the same version of the SBG software the old Control Center was running this time with the bigger disk.  Assign it the same IP's, hostname etc.  Run the database restore and you should be sorted.

 

Kevin

Fortunately, the VMware ESX architecture makes this easy to go through.  I can just snapshot the VM and give it a try.

Thanks!

Not really sure if a snapshot is going to help here, the whole point is you want to run a database backup off the current appliance, set up an entirely new image with a larger disk and then restore your old database to the new image with the larger file system.

Kevin

Noted...  I guess my point was that there's minimal risk involved to my production appliance as I can fire up new images at will.

Thanks!