Hi all,
ESXi 5.5 ent+
HP BL460c Gen8 with P220i array controller
Intel SSD DC S3700 200 GB (Intel disk is supported, also tried with Samsung 960 GB SSD)
I have a problem with adding a SSD disk in web client. I click Manage - Settings - Virtual Flash Resource Management - Add capacity, but the list i empty.
Both disks are visible if looking on storage adapters, it is fully possible to add them as a datastore, which I tried on the Samsung without any success.
The disks have been used for PernixData evaluation and worked well there.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Found the issue: The drive was marked as not local. Also it may be that the drive is not flagged as an SSD (not in my case though).
~ # esxcli storage core device list -d naa.600508b1001c4fb788c917f46bf2a2f5
Display Name: HP Serial Attached SCSI Disk (naa.600508b1001c4fb788c917f46bf2a2f5)
Has Settable Display Name: true
Size: 915683
Device Type: Direct-Access
Multipath Plugin: NMP
Devfs Path: /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.600508b1001c4fb788c917f46bf2a2f5
Vendor: HP
Model: LOGICAL VOLUME
Revision: 4.68
SCSI Level: 5
Is Pseudo: false
Status: degraded
Is RDM Capable: true
Is Local: false
Is Removable: false
Is SSD: true
Is Offline: false
Is Perennially Reserved: false
Queue Full Sample Size: 0
Queue Full Threshold: 0
Thin Provisioning Status: unknown
Attached Filters:
VAAI Status: unknown
Other UIDs: vml.0200010000600508b1001c4fb788c917f46bf2a2f54c4f47494341
Is Local SAS Device: false
Is Boot USB Device: false
No of outstanding IOs with competing worlds: 32
In order to mark it as local I ran this command (note that the syntax of option sub-command is wrong in the documentation, I posted the correct one):
esxcli storage nmp satp rule add -s VMW_SATP_LOCAL --device naa.600508b1001c277a2d4d5e0285b4f6db --option="enable_local"
After a reboot it was possible to add the drive as flash device.
Thanks
I think Pernix has already put a partition on the disks, and since vFRC uses a dedicated filesystem, it might not able to detect this disk as usable. Perhaps you can use some kind of partition tool (gParted, for example), you might be able to remove the current partition layout and try it again.
Found the issue: The drive was marked as not local. Also it may be that the drive is not flagged as an SSD (not in my case though).
~ # esxcli storage core device list -d naa.600508b1001c4fb788c917f46bf2a2f5
Display Name: HP Serial Attached SCSI Disk (naa.600508b1001c4fb788c917f46bf2a2f5)
Has Settable Display Name: true
Size: 915683
Device Type: Direct-Access
Multipath Plugin: NMP
Devfs Path: /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.600508b1001c4fb788c917f46bf2a2f5
Vendor: HP
Model: LOGICAL VOLUME
Revision: 4.68
SCSI Level: 5
Is Pseudo: false
Status: degraded
Is RDM Capable: true
Is Local: false
Is Removable: false
Is SSD: true
Is Offline: false
Is Perennially Reserved: false
Queue Full Sample Size: 0
Queue Full Threshold: 0
Thin Provisioning Status: unknown
Attached Filters:
VAAI Status: unknown
Other UIDs: vml.0200010000600508b1001c4fb788c917f46bf2a2f54c4f47494341
Is Local SAS Device: false
Is Boot USB Device: false
No of outstanding IOs with competing worlds: 32
In order to mark it as local I ran this command (note that the syntax of option sub-command is wrong in the documentation, I posted the correct one):
esxcli storage nmp satp rule add -s VMW_SATP_LOCAL --device naa.600508b1001c277a2d4d5e0285b4f6db --option="enable_local"
After a reboot it was possible to add the drive as flash device.
Thanks
Just unclaim and claiming the device should make non-local to local. Instead reboot. But there should not be any active local locks in the device.