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    • AdamFA
      AdamF
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      48% initialized. I might actually be able to try an install again today!

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      • BRRABillB
        BRRABill @AdamF
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        @fuznutz04 said in XenServer installation SR issue:

        48% initialized. I might actually be able to try an install again today!

        Are you watching it? It always goes slower that way. 🙂

        I like to go across the building and have a few beers while waiting.

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        • AdamFA
          AdamF @BRRABill
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          @BRRABill said in XenServer installation SR issue:

          @fuznutz04 said in XenServer installation SR issue:

          48% initialized. I might actually be able to try an install again today!

          Are you watching it? It always goes slower that way. 🙂

          I like to go across the building and have a few beers while waiting.

          Well, The server is sitting on my floor, with a monitor beside my desk. I cant help it, I keep glancing over at it. Maybe I should just turn the monitor off. Cant have a few beers just yet... need to focus for a few more hours.

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          • BRRABillB
            BRRABill @AdamF
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            @fuznutz04 said in XenServer installation SR issue:

            @BRRABill said in XenServer installation SR issue:

            @fuznutz04 said in XenServer installation SR issue:

            48% initialized. I might actually be able to try an install again today!

            Are you watching it? It always goes slower that way. 🙂

            I like to go across the building and have a few beers while waiting.

            Well, The server is sitting on my floor, with a monitor beside my desk. I cant help it, I keep glancing over at it. Maybe I should just turn the monitor off. Cant have a few beers just yet... need to focus for a few more hours.

            Beer helps me focus. Then makes me sleep. So I have to be very productive in those few hours I'm awake. 😉

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            • AdamFA
              AdamF @BRRABill
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              @BRRABill Exactly. It's the sleep part that isn't good while trying to get stuff done.

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              • BRRABillB
                BRRABill @AdamF
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                @fuznutz04 said in XenServer installation SR issue:

                @BRRABill Exactly. It's the sleep part that isn't good while trying to get stuff done.

                But think how refreshed you will be when you wake up from your catnap at 4:00.

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                • AdamFA
                  AdamF
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                  So the Full initialization of the raid set and reinstall did nothing. Same results as before.

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                  • JaredBuschJ
                    JaredBusch @AdamF
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                    @fuznutz04 said in XenServer installation SR issue:

                    So the Full initialization of the raid set and reinstall did nothing. Same results as before.

                    Of course it is the same result, this is not where your problem is. I am not sure why you would think that the result would be different. Recreating the array loses everything always. Does not matter if the initialization is full or fast.

                    Now, I do not know where your problem is as I have no experience with XS 7 and little with 6.5.

                    Setting up my home lab and testing this out is waiting on me having private office space again. Instead of in the family room.

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                    • AdamFA
                      AdamF @JaredBusch
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                      @JaredBusch said in XenServer installation SR issue:

                      @fuznutz04 said in XenServer installation SR issue:

                      So the Full initialization of the raid set and reinstall did nothing. Same results as before.

                      Of course it is the same result, this is not where your problem is. I am not sure why you would think that the result would be different. Recreating the array loses everything always. Does not matter if the initialization is full or fast.

                      Now, I do not know where your problem is as I have no experience with XS 7 and little with 6.5.

                      Setting up my home lab and testing this out is waiting on me having private office space again. Instead of in the family room.

                      My thought was that something wasn't being properly cleared during a quick initialization. I'm grasping at straws. Not really sure where to go from here. Calling the vendor and asking for a replacement controller? They will probably say that they installed an OS on it for testing before it went out the door.

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                      • JaredBuschJ
                        JaredBusch @AdamF
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                        @fuznutz04 said in XenServer installation SR issue:

                        @JaredBusch said in XenServer installation SR issue:

                        @fuznutz04 said in XenServer installation SR issue:

                        So the Full initialization of the raid set and reinstall did nothing. Same results as before.

                        Of course it is the same result, this is not where your problem is. I am not sure why you would think that the result would be different. Recreating the array loses everything always. Does not matter if the initialization is full or fast.

                        Now, I do not know where your problem is as I have no experience with XS 7 and little with 6.5.

                        Setting up my home lab and testing this out is waiting on me having private office space again. Instead of in the family room.

                        My thought was that something wasn't being properly cleared during a quick initialization. I'm grasping at straws. Not really sure where to go from here. Calling the vendor and asking for a replacement controller? They will probably say that they installed an OS on it for testing before it went out the door.

                        If you are that desperate, install ESXi or Hyper-V server or something and see if you have similar results.

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                        • guyinpvG
                          guyinpv
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                          It wouldn't hurt to just turn off RAID, bypass everything, stick in just one drive and try to install to it. Use your newest drive.

                          If you must RAID, do something simpler and just mirror two newest drives.

                          It would seem on the surface that XS simply can't configure the way it needs, which means perhaps hardware incompatibility?

                          If it were me, I feel I have to rule out the RAID and RAID hardware and drives entirely. If a drive works by itself, then try a simple RAID mirror. If that works, try the 10 again with 4 drives. I could be one of the physical drives just isn't matching all the rest in some sense.

                          Like you said, grasping at straws.

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                          • DanpD
                            Danp
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                            Have you tried it without enabling the thin provisioning?

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                            • scottalanmillerS
                              scottalanmiller @AdamF
                              last edited by

                              @fuznutz04 said in XenServer installation SR issue:

                              My thought was that something wasn't being properly cleared during a quick initialization.

                              Recreating RAID blows absolutely everything away. Anything "left over" would cause total data corruption.

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                              • AdamFA
                                AdamF
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                                So next steps this weekend is:

                                Try the install again on a disk by itself. If that works, Then try it on another set of disks in a Raid 1 array. Then go from there.

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                                • AdamFA
                                  AdamF @Danp
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                                  @Danp said in XenServer installation SR issue:

                                  Have you tried it without enabling the thin provisioning?

                                  No, I haven't. Will try that also.

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                                  • scottalanmillerS
                                    scottalanmiller @AdamF
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                                    @fuznutz04 said in XenServer installation SR issue:

                                    @Danp said in XenServer installation SR issue:

                                    Have you tried it without enabling the thin provisioning?

                                    No, I haven't. Will try that also.

                                    That removes the EXT3 layer.

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                                    • AdamFA
                                      AdamF
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                                      Finally, a win this week. Tried many things including just using one disk for the install. Still no dice. Then as suggested I tried an install NOT using thin provisioning. It worked the first time. So why?

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                                      • scottalanmillerS
                                        scottalanmiller @AdamF
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                                        @fuznutz04 said in XenServer installation SR issue:

                                        Finally, a win this week. Tried many things including just using one disk for the install. Still no dice. Then as suggested I tried an install NOT using thin provisioning. It worked the first time. So why?

                                        That's very strange indeed. So you are using thick (LVM) on the RAID array now?

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                                        • scottalanmillerS
                                          scottalanmiller
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                                          My current guess, but I don't see enough lvs output, is that LVM is creating only one LV and there is nowhere for the ext3 to go.

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                                          • DanpD
                                            Danp @AdamF
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                                            @fuznutz04 You could try to change from LVM to EXT --

                                            http://xmodulo.com/how-to-change-xenservers-local-storage.html

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