Increasing storage capacity
You can increase or change the amount of storage available for Git repositories, databases, search indexes, and other persistent application data.
Warning: The process for allocating new system resources varies by virtualization platform and resource type. You should always configure the monitoring and alerting of key system resources. For more information, see "Monitoring your GitHub Enterprise Server appliance."
As more users join your GitHub Enterprise Server instance, you may need to resize your storage volume. Refer to the documentation for your virtualization platform for information on resizing storage.
In this guide
- Requirements and recommendations
- Increasing the data partition size
- Increasing the root partition size using a new appliance
- Increasing the root partition size using an existing appliance
Requirements and recommendations
Note: Before resizing the user storage volume, put your instance in maintenance mode. For more information, see "Enabling and scheduling maintenance mode."
We recommend different hardware configurations based on the number of seats used in your GitHub Enterprise Server instance.
Seats | vCPUs | Memory | Attached storage | Root storage |
---|---|---|---|---|
10-500 | 2 | 16 GB | 100 GB | 200 GB |
500-3000 | 4 | 32 GB | 250 GB | 200 GB |
3000-5000 | 8 | 64 GB | 500 GB | 200 GB |
5000-8000 | 12 | 72 GB | 750 GB | 200 GB |
8000-10000+ | 16 | 128 GB | 1000 GB | 200 GB |
These are minimum recommendations. More resources may be required depending on your usage, such as user activity and selected integrations.
Increasing the data partition size
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Resize the existing user volume disk using your virtualization platform's tools.
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SSH into your GitHub Enterprise Server instance.
$ ssh -p 122 admin@HOSTNAME
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Put the appliance in maintenance mode. For more information, see "Enabling and scheduling maintenance mode."
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Reboot the appliance to detect the new storage allocation.
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Run the
ghe-storage-extend
command to expand the/data
filesystem:$ ghe-storage-extend
Increasing the root partition size using a new appliance
- Set up a new GitHub Enterprise Server instance with a larger root disk using the same version as your current appliance. For more information, see "Setting up a GitHub Enterprise Server instance."
- Shut down the current appliance.
- Detach the data disk from the current appliance using your virtualization platform's tools.
- Attach the data disk to the new appliance with the larger root disk.
Increasing the root partition size using an existing appliance
- Attach a new disk to your GitHub Enterprise Server appliance.
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Run the
parted
command to format the disk:$ sudo parted /dev/xvdg mklabel msdos $ sudo parted /dev/xvdg mkpart primary ext4 0% 50% $ sudo parted /dev/xvdg mkpart primary ext4 50% 100%
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Run the
ghe-upgrade
command to install a full, platform specific package to the newly partitioned disk. A universal hotpatch upgrade package, such asgithub-enterprise-2.11.9.hpkg
, will not work as expected.$ ghe-upgrade PACKAGE-NAME.pkg -s -t /dev/xvdg1
- Shut down the appliance.
- In the hypervisor, remove the old root disk and attach the new root disk at the same location as the old root disk.
- Start the appliance.