Volumes not available
Added by christian mineo 11 months ago
Hello all..
I need a little technical help.
I have just installed a nexenta 3.1.3 as virtual machine on a vmware environment.
First of all I have created 2 logical raid 5 (64 gb and 101 Gb) based on a MegaRaid SCSI controller.
The vmware host it’s able to menaged and “see” the two datastores but nexenta it’s able only to refresh the system raid (64gb) and not the second raid 5 (101GB) where I would like to create volumes.
In this way I can’t create volumes and go on with my tests…
How I have to menaged the system?
Could you help me finding what’s wrong?
Replies
RE: Volumes not available - Added by James H 11 months ago
Christian,
So you've created 2 volumes on the raid controller and the ESX host can see them. I assume you've then created 2 VMFS volumes. In the Virtual Machine settings have you added two disks (VMDKs), one on each VMFS. If you've done that and Nexenta can't see the disks, I'd try rebooting and then running "lunsync -y". Then run "format" and check the drives show up. (lunsync is in NMC, format is in bash shell)
All the usual caveats about recommending passthrough, HBAs etc but there's plenty of other posts you can read about that.
James
RE: Volumes not available - Added by christian mineo 11 months ago
Many thx for your help james!
Finally I have improved an other solution(my server was not compatible with DirectPath for Vmware) ..i have installed the software directly on a free machine with 4 disks...
All work fine ..i have already improved a vmware environment and used iscsi targets to install some vm's! 2 Hosts where I can improve DRS and HA with Vcenter....i will try performances of the SAN and his availability!
This "SAN" make me happy today! :)
Have a nice weekend!
-----Original Message----- From: NexentaStor.org [mailto:tracker@nexentastor.org] Sent: venerdì 6 luglio 2012 17:17 Subject: [NexentaStor Project - General Discussion - msg7563] RE: Volumes not available
http://www.nexentastor.org/boards/1/topics/7563 James H
Christian,
So you've created 2 volumes on the raid controller and the ESX host can see them. I assume you've then created 2 VMFS volumes. In the Virtual Machine settings have you added two disks (VMDKs), one on each VMFS. If you've done that and Nexenta can't see the disks, I'd try rebooting and then running "lunsync -y". Then run "format" and check the drives show up. (lunsync is in NMC, format is in bash shell)
All the usual caveats about recommending passthrough, HBAs etc but there's plenty of other posts you can read about that.
James
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