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    • DustinB3403D
      DustinB3403 @FATeknollogee
      last edited by

      @FATeknollogee yeah.

      Start here though

      http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX121313

       cat /proc/partitions

      Also in XC do you see local storage under this host, or no?

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      • FATeknollogeeF
        FATeknollogee
        last edited by

        No local storage
        0_1476303462661_local.PNG

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        • DustinB3403D
          DustinB3403 @FATeknollogee
          last edited by

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

          No local storage
          0_1476303462661_local.PNG

          Ok so it didn't create any storage for you at all to use, meaning you have to manually create an SR. Follow the guide I posted just above.

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          • FATeknollogeeF
            FATeknollogee
            last edited by

            Ok, let me follow the guide.
            I'll report back in a few

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            • DustinB3403D
              DustinB3403
              last edited by

              Your mileage may vary with that guide, since you have many drives presented to XS.

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              • travisdh1T
                travisdh1 @DustinB3403
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                @DustinB3403 said in XenServer 7 install to Dell R730 OBR10 15TB:

                Also wouldn't it be the smarter choice to go with EXT4 over EXT3?

                EXT4 has some oddities that made some people (XenServer) not trust it completely. I'd say XFS would've been a better choice at the time, and brtfs should be the future.

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                • FATeknollogeeF
                  FATeknollogee @FATeknollogee
                  last edited by

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

                  Ok, let me follow the guide.
                  I'll report back in a few

                  Getting an error msg
                  "The SR operation cannot be performed because a device underlying the SR is in use by the host."

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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller @travisdh1
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                    @travisdh1 said in XenServer 7 install to Dell R730 OBR10 15TB:

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

                    Also wouldn't it be the smarter choice to go with EXT4 over EXT3?

                    EXT4 has some oddities that made some people (XenServer) not trust it completely. I'd say XFS would've been a better choice at the time, and brtfs should be the future.

                    XFS is what I had been expecting. Going to ext3 again is just silly.

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                    • travisdh1T
                      travisdh1 @scottalanmiller
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                      @scottalanmiller said in XenServer 7 install to Dell R730 OBR10 15TB:

                      @travisdh1 said in XenServer 7 install to Dell R730 OBR10 15TB:

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

                      Also wouldn't it be the smarter choice to go with EXT4 over EXT3?

                      EXT4 has some oddities that made some people (XenServer) not trust it completely. I'd say XFS would've been a better choice at the time, and brtfs should be the future.

                      XFS is what I had been expecting. Going to ext3 again is just silly.

                      I'll steal the most-moderated title if I say what I think about sticking with ext3.

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                      • JaredBuschJ
                        JaredBusch @travisdh1
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                        @travisdh1 said in XenServer 7 install to Dell R730 OBR10 15TB:

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

                        @travisdh1 said in XenServer 7 install to Dell R730 OBR10 15TB:

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

                        Also wouldn't it be the smarter choice to go with EXT4 over EXT3?

                        EXT4 has some oddities that made some people (XenServer) not trust it completely. I'd say XFS would've been a better choice at the time, and brtfs should be the future.

                        XFS is what I had been expecting. Going to ext3 again is just silly.

                        I'll steal the most-moderated title if I say what I think about sticking with ext3.

                        Not a chance...

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                        • DanpD
                          Danp @travisdh1
                          last edited by

                          Does Xen support btrfs? I wonder if the upcoming release of XS with Xen 4.7 will give us more supported options.

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                          • FATeknollogeeF
                            FATeknollogee
                            last edited by

                            I ran this cmd's, rebooted the host & now I'm able to create SRs

                            dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1M count=1024
                            dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc bs=1M count=1024
                            dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdd bs=1M count=1024
                            dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sde bs=1M count=1024

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                            • DashrenderD
                              Dashrender
                              last edited by

                              @FATeknollogee
                              when you looked at the volume layout after XS was installed, did it create an ext3 volume and just fail to mount it?

                              One thing I'm not sure if someone has successfully tried yet is if they can manually mount an ext3 volume that's larger than 2 TB into XS or if there is some sort of limit in XS that prevents it.

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                              • BRRABillB
                                BRRABill
                                last edited by

                                Isn't 2TB the max size of ext3?

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                                • DashrenderD
                                  Dashrender @BRRABill
                                  last edited by

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

                                  Isn't 2TB the max size of ext3?

                                  I thought we found it's 16 TB

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                                  • scottalanmillerS
                                    scottalanmiller @Danp
                                    last edited by

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

                                    Does Xen support btrfs? I wonder if the upcoming release of XS with Xen 4.7 will give us more supported options.

                                    Xen does I believe, the limitation has always been XenServer, not Xen.

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                                    • FATeknollogeeF
                                      FATeknollogee @FATeknollogee
                                      last edited by FATeknollogee

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

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

                                      Just using the XS GUI install (no CLI), tried another install option...
                                      1x 80GB for o/s + 4x 400GB for VM storage with Thin prov. enabled.
                                      This option works as advertised.
                                      0_1476341244987_pre2tb.PNG

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                                      • FATeknollogeeF
                                        FATeknollogee
                                        last edited by FATeknollogee

                                        Another install option..
                                        Using the XS GUI install (no CLI)...SR is created & it spans the selected discs
                                        1x 80GB for o/s + 4x 1TB for VM storage with thin prov. enabled.
                                        This option works as advertised.

                                        0_1476345514647_xs7post.PNG

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                                        • FATeknollogeeF
                                          FATeknollogee
                                          last edited by FATeknollogee

                                          Another install option..
                                          Using the XS GUI install (no CLI)...SR is created & it spans the selected discs
                                          1x 80GB for o/s + 10x 1.5TB for VM storage with thin prov. enabled.

                                          0_1476358990017_x7multi.PNG

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                                          • BRRABillB
                                            BRRABill @Dashrender
                                            last edited by

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

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

                                            Isn't 2TB the max size of ext3?

                                            I thought we found it's 16 TB

                                            Ah, I was thinking of file size.

                                            I think the max file size is 2TB maybe?

                                            Which might also explain things since the VHD can't be larger than 2GB.

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