{"id":7586,"date":"2025-11-05T08:12:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T07:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/?p=7586"},"modified":"2025-11-05T08:12:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T07:12:03","slug":"commvault-virtual-appliance-add-hard-disk-for-the-index-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/commvault-virtual-appliance-add-hard-disk-for-the-index-server\/","title":{"rendered":"Commvault virtual appliance &#8211; add hard disk for the index server"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<h3>Commvault virtual appliance &#8211; add hard disk for the index server<\/h3>\n<p>if you using the preconfigured .ova appliance of the commvault CS-Linux, you may need add another disk for example for the index, is better to have dedicated disk, especially if you plan to index MS365 applications. But my recommendation is if you have more than 300 users, build a dedicated index server, it will help you with performance issues in the future.<\/p>\n<p>create physical volume<br \/><em>sudo pvcreate \/dev\/sdi<\/em><\/p>\n<p>create volume group<br \/><em>sudo vgcreate vg_index \/dev\/sdi<\/em><\/p>\n<p>create logical volume named indexvol_lvol (mapper: \/dev\/mapper\/vg_index_indexvol_lvol)<br \/><em>sudo lvcreate -l 100%FREE -n indexvol_lvol vg_index<\/em><\/p>\n<p>create XFS filesystem<br \/><em>sudo mkfs.xfs \/dev\/vg_index\/indexvol_lvol<\/em><\/p>\n<p>create mount point<br \/><em>sudo mkdir -p \/var\/commvaultdata\/Index_Server<\/em><\/p>\n<p>mount the disk<br \/><em>sudo mount \/dev\/vg_index\/indexvol_lvol \/var\/commvaultdata\/Index_Server<\/em><\/p>\n<p>add to \/etc\/fstab for permanent mount<br \/><em>echo &#8222;\/dev\/mapper\/vg_index_indexvol_lvol \/var\/commvaultdata\/Index_Server xfs defaults 0 0&#8220; | sudo tee -a \/etc\/fstab<\/em><\/p>\n<p>verify<br \/><em>lsblk -f<\/em><br \/><em>df -h \/var\/commvaultdata\/Index_Server<\/em><\/p>\n<p>after you can add the index server in the commcell console:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-05-at-8.02.56.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7587\" src=\"https:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-05-at-8.02.56-494x189.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"494\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-05-at-8.02.56-494x189.png 494w, https:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-05-at-8.02.56-288x110.png 288w, https:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-05-at-8.02.56-768x294.png 768w, https:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-05-at-8.02.56-1536x588.png 1536w, https:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-05-at-8.02.56-2048x784.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 494px) 100vw, 494px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commvault virtual appliance &#8211; add hard disk for the index server if you using the preconfigured .ova appliance of the commvault CS-Linux, you may need add another disk for example &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[412],"tags":[156],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - 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