XenServer 7 install to Dell R730 OBR10 15TB

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.

FATeknollogee

@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."

scottalanmiller

@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.

travisdh1

@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.

JaredBusch

@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...

Danp

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

FATeknollogee

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

Dashrender

@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.

BRRABill

Isn't 2TB the max size of ext3?

Dashrender

@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

scottalanmiller

@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.

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.

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.

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.