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Expand harddisk in ESET Protect Virtual Appliance

Expand the disk of your ESET Protect Virtual Appliance in your hypervisor platform.
It is advisable to create a snapshot before proceeding.
Power on your ESET Protect Virtual Appliance
Login via SSH or the VM Console ( and exit to terminal)
Extend the partition by using the command fdisk /dev/sda
Enter p to print your initial partition table.
Enter d (delete) followed by 2 to delete the existing partition definition (partition 1 is usually /boot and partition 2 is usually the root partition).
Enter n (new) followed by p (primary) followed by 2 to re-create partition number 2 and enter to accept the start block and enter again to accept the end block which is defaulted to the end of the disk.

Enter t (type) then 2 then 8e to change the new partition type to "Linux LVM".

Enter p to print your new partition table and make sure the start block matches what was in the initial partition table printed above.

Enter w to write the partition table to disk. You will see an error about Device or resource busy which you can ignore.
Reboot the ESET Protect Virtual Appliance.
Resize the physical volume: pvresize /dev/sda2
Expand the logical volume: lvextend -l +100%FREE /dev/centos_ba-eraappl-v/root
Expand the file system: xfs_growfs /
You have now successfully expanded the harddisk of your ESET Protect Virtual Appliance:

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