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BjornJohansson
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vSphere Read Cache - no disk is found

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!

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BjornJohansson
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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

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tomtom901
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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.

BjornJohansson
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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

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admin
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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.

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