XenServer 7 install to Dell R730 OBR10 15TB

FATeknollogee

Not sure why it let's you pick these options..............

DustinB3403

So the individual 8TB drives are all listed as available targets, but selecting the thin provisioning seems to do nothing.

It still configures it as LVM, and thick.

For testing, go ahead and follow through with the process, then once the install is complete run

 xe sr-list uuid=<any 8tb uuid> params=all

FATeknollogee

Will do.
I added 4x 8TB virtual drives + 1x 64GB (for o/s)

FATeknollogee

How about the message: "One SR will created that spans the selected disks"?

DustinB3403

@FATeknollogee I'm not certain, I've never presented more than a single disk to be used for the local storage.

If it create a single array across of the disks then it's doing some sort of RAID setup. Which would be bad, since you generally want your array managed by the controller

DustinB3403

Unless of course you're using software raid.

But this was previously setup inside of XS, not during installation. (there is a guide around here somewhere with software raid and XS 6.5)

FATeknollogee

That message seems to imply that XS would create some type of "span" across the 4 disks I selected.

DustinB3403

@FATeknollogee said in XenServer 7 install to Dell R730 OBR10 15TB:

That message seems to imply that XS would create some type of "span" across the 4 disks I selected.

I assume some sort of RAID setup (span is just a non-scary word for it)

BRRABill

I think it just spans it. No RAID.

FATeknollogee

@DustinB3403 said in XenServer 7 install to Dell R730 OBR10 15TB:

So the individual 8TB drives are all listed as available targets, but selecting the thin provisioning seems to do nothing.

It still configures it as LVM, and thick.

For testing, go ahead and follow through with the process, then once the install is complete run
 xe sr-list uuid=<any 8tb uuid> params=all

Ran that cmd as root: result - "No such file or directory"