View source for Add a Hard Drive to XenServer

Version 6.2

== adding a new hard drive i.e. /dev/sdb ==

1) verify the drive of interest is recognized

 # '''cat /proc/partitions'''
 major minor  #blocks  name

   7        0      52378 loop0
   8        0  976762584 sda
   8        1    4193297 sda1
   8        2    4193297 sda2
   8        3  968372935 sda3
   8       16 1953514584 sdb
 252        0  968359936 dm-0

sdb shows up so we are good...

2) Find the disk ID of the new device

 # '''ll /dev/disk/by-id'''
 total 0
 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  9 Jan 23 13:35 edd-int13_dev81 -> ../../sdb
 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  9 Jan 23 13:35 scsi-SATA_WDC_WD10EACS-00_WD-WCASJ1527948 -> ../../sda
 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jan 23 13:35 scsi-SATA_WDC_WD10EACS-00_WD-WCASJ1527948-part1 -> ../../sda1
 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jan 23 13:35 scsi-SATA_WDC_WD10EACS-00_WD-WCASJ1527948-part2 -> ../../sda2
 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jan 23 13:35 scsi-SATA_WDC_WD10EACS-00_WD-WCASJ1527948-part3 -> ../../sda3
 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  9 Jan 23 13:35 scsi-SATA_WDC_WD20EARS-00_WD-WMAZA2044059 -> ../../sdb

3) Find out the 'host-uuid' in XenServer

 # '''xe host-list''' 
 uuid ( RO)                : 89568def-9ecf-44e4-ae21-35e353c40c82
          name-label ( RW): myxenbox
    name-description ( RW): Default install of XenServer

4) Create a Storage Repository (SR) using data from above:

xe sr-create content-type=user device-config:device=/dev/disk/by-id/''<scsi-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>'' host-uuid=''<host-uuid>'' name-label=”Local Storage 2” shared=false type=lvm

example:
 # xe sr-create content-type=user device-config:device=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD20EARS-00_WD-WMAZA2044059 host-uuid=89568def-9ecf-44e4-ae21-35e353c40c82 name-label=datastore1 shared=false type=lvm




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