Introduction

A nice brief post here. This is the operation required to increase disk size when using Linux RAID e.g. mdadm on an underlying ESXi host.

Steps

Increase the size of the VMDK files within ESXi

Simply edit the size of both disks within ESXi. In my case they are a combined 1.4 TB being increased to 1.5TB

Restart the machine

Update the size of the mdadm array

sudo mdadm --grow /dev/md0 --size=max
mdadm: component size of /dev/md0 has been set to 1610481664K

Grow the partition

sudo resize2fs /dev/md0
resize2fs 1.42.13 (17-May-2015)
Filesystem at /dev/md0 is mounted on /Media; on-line resizing required
old_desc_blocks = 90, new_desc_blocks = 96
The filesystem on /dev/md0 is now 402620416 (4k) blocks long.

That is all you need to grow the existing virtual disks into the free space you have on the underlying physical disks.

Expanding Linux Raid ESXi
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