Building Out XenServer 6.5 with USB Boot and Software RAID 10
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Yes, just need to compile it into a step by step "one place" list.
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And it would be handy to know what his device list was going to look like.
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And preferably test it as you go, lol.
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Does anyone know how to select the VM storage in xenserver, outside of the ISO installation process. We probably need that as well.
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@DustinB3403 I am actually trying to do exactly that just right now on my test setup. It thought that with this command:
xe sr-create type=ext device-config:device=/dev/md10 shared=false host-uuid:fba59a9c7e6db5a2d21e40343b415cfd name-label="Array storage"It would get added as local storage to xencenter, but I am getting this error :
The SR operation cannot be performed because a device underlying the SR is in use by the host.Don't really know why, I haven't used xenserver before. Any ideas @scottalanmiller
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OK so without the specific target device I believe this command will work.
xe sr-create content-type=user type=ext device-config:device=/dev/cciss/c0d0p3 shared=false name-label="Local storage"
We simply need to determine his device path
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@Romo said:
@DustinB3403 I am actually trying to do exactly that just right now on my test setup. It thought that with this command:
xe sr-create type=ext device-config:device=/dev/md10 shared=false host-uuid:fba59a9c7e6db5a2d21e40343b415cfd name-label="Array storage"It would get added as local storage to xencenter, but I am getting this error :
The SR operation cannot be performed because a device underlying the SR is in use by the host.Don't really know why, I haven't used xenserver before. Any ideas @scottalanmiller
The reason your target device is in use is you have it mounted. Try dismounting the array and try again.
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Romo when you run
xe sr-list
What's listed?
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The array is now properly seen as storage in xencenter, I did have to unmount it first @DustinB3403
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What process did you run to unmount it.
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umount /dev/md10
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So you ran
umount /dev/md10
and then
xe sr-create type=ext device-config:device=/dev/md10 shared=false host-uuid:fba59a9c7e6db5a2d21e40343b415cfd name-label="Array storage"
Correct?
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Yes, @DustinB3403 .
This is xe sr-list output with the array added as storage
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@DustinB3403 sorry I did add content-type=user to the sr-create command. The final command was
xe sr-create type=ext device-config:device=/dev/md10 shared=false host-uuid:fba59a9c-7e6db5a2-d21e4034-3b415cfd content-type=user name-label="Array storage"
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OK so after saving the RAID Array (in my wall of text) he then would have to run
umount /dev/raid10
and then
xe sr-create type=ext device-config:device=/dev/raid10 shared=false host-uuid:<HOST-UUID> content-type=user name-label="Array storage"
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I'm guessing the system auto-mounted the array when you built it, and can now see it in XenCenter.
Correct?
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It is automounting since we added it to our fstab
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After adding the array as storage xenserver , the output of df -Th changes to this
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I removed the /dev/md10 entry from fstab so it doesn't automount and causes conflict with xenserver handling storage