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    XenServer Local SR: Need another pair of eyes

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      DustinB3403
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      But it shouldn't be /dev/sda that would (if your running from USB) be the USB drive.

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        travisdh1 @DustinB3403
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        @DustinB3403 said in XenServer Local SR: Need another pair of eyes:

        But it shouldn't be /dev/sda that would (if your running from USB) be the USB drive.

        A possibility for sure. What does the out put of

        ls -l /dev/sd*
        

        show?

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          Kelly @travisdh1
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          /dev/sda is the right partition according to fdisk -l

          Here is the output of the ls -l

          brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8,  0 Jun  7 09:55 /dev/sda
          brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 16 Jun  6 16:02 /dev/sdb
          brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 17 Jun  6 16:02 /dev/sdb1
          brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 18 Jun  6 16:02 /dev/sdb2
          brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 19 Jun  6 16:02 /dev/sdb3
          brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 21 Jun  6 16:02 /dev/sdb5
          brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 22 Jun  6 16:02 /dev/sdb6
          
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            DustinB3403
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            This system only has two drives in it?

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              travisdh1 @Kelly
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              @Kelly Ok, so sdb is obviously the system drive. Is the RAID controller a Dell/LSI? Might need to get the LSI megaraid-sas or one of their other utilities installed to get us the actual array status. For now, what does

              fdisk -l /dev/sda
              

              show?

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                momurda
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                what does 'pvdisplay' output?
                or 'vgdisplay'

                xe sr-create host-uuid=uuidofhost shared=false type=lvm content-type=user device-config:device=/dev/sda1 name-label="blah"

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                  Kelly @travisdh1
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                  @travisdh1 said in XenServer Local SR: Need another pair of eyes:

                  @Kelly Ok, so sdb is obviously the system drive. Is the RAID controller a Dell/LSI? Might need to get the LSI megaraid-sas or one of their other utilities installed to get us the actual array status. For now, what does

                  fdisk -l /dev/sda
                  

                  show?

                  Disk /dev/sda: 24001.4 GB, 24001350991872 bytes, 46877638656 sectors
                  Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
                  Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
                  I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
                  
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                    Kelly @momurda
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                    @momurda said in XenServer Local SR: Need another pair of eyes:

                    what does 'pvdisplay' output?
                    or 'vgdisplay'

                    xe sr-create host-uuid=uuidofhost shared=false type=lvm content-type=user device-config:device=/dev/sda1 name-label="blah"

                    No return on either pvdisplay or vgdisplay.

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                      travisdh1 @Kelly
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                      @Kelly So far the drive looks good. This seems silly, be it could be that you'll need to create a partition on the drive for things to work. (Don't ask me why, a raw drive vs a partition shouldn't make much difference.) I'd go with an LVM partition type and use type=lvm like @momurda suggested.

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                        Kelly @travisdh1
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                        @travisdh1 said in XenServer Local SR: Need another pair of eyes:

                        @Kelly So far the drive looks good. This seems silly, be it could be that you'll need to create a partition on the drive for things to work. (Don't ask me why, a raw drive vs a partition shouldn't make much difference.) I'd go with an LVM partition type and use type=lvm like @momurda suggested.

                        Same response. I just have a > below the command.

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                          travisdh1 @Kelly
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                          @Kelly Well, bother.

                          xe sr-create host-uuid=uuidofhost shared=false type=lvm content-type=user device-config:device=/dev/sda1 name-label="blah"
                          

                          Should work. You've stumped me for the day at least.

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                            momurda
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                            Thats weird. pvdisplay/vgdisplay should give you a list of physical devices (pvdisplay) and vgdisplay should show you the logical volumes of your physical disks.

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                              Kelly @travisdh1
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                              @travisdh1 said in XenServer Local SR: Need another pair of eyes:

                              @Kelly Well, bother.

                              xe sr-create host-uuid=uuidofhost shared=false type=lvm content-type=user device-config:device=/dev/sda1 name-label="blah"
                              

                              Should work. You've stumped me for the day at least.

                              Does the order of the elements after sr-create matter?

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                                travisdh1 @Kelly
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                                @Kelly said in XenServer Local SR: Need another pair of eyes:

                                @travisdh1 said in XenServer Local SR: Need another pair of eyes:

                                @Kelly Well, bother.

                                xe sr-create host-uuid=uuidofhost shared=false type=lvm content-type=user device-config:device=/dev/sda1 name-label="blah"
                                

                                Should work. You've stumped me for the day at least.

                                Does the order of the elements after sr-create matter?

                                It shouldn't, but xe can be a bit of an oddball at times. Could be as simple as a space where one shouldn't be.

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                                  Kelly
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                                  Ok, so I decided to step through xe sr-create until it stopped complaining. It created the SR with just this:

                                  xe sr-create name-label="VM Storage" type=lvm host-uuid=uuid device-config:device=/dev/sda
                                  

                                  I only entered a parameter when it specifically asked for it. I'm wondering if there is an undocumented change in one of the parameters.

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                                    Kelly
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                                    And the same command worked on the second host in the pool as well (different uuid).

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                                      momurda
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                                      curious what the output of 'xe sr-list' shows for content-type on your new SRs since you didnt specify when creating.

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                                        Kelly @momurda
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                                        @momurda said in XenServer Local SR: Need another pair of eyes:

                                        curious what the output of 'xe sr-list' shows for content-type on your new SRs since you didnt specify when creating.

                                        Hmm...

                                        content-type ( RO):
                                        
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                                          momurda
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                                          Hmm indeed. can you use the new SRs? Boot a vm on them, add a disk from one to an existing vm?

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                                            Kelly @momurda
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                                            @momurda said in XenServer Local SR: Need another pair of eyes:

                                            Hmm indeed. can you use the new SRs? Boot a vm on them, add a disk from one to an existing vm?

                                            The pbd was marked as read-only. I'm going to try adding in content-type to my above command.

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