Showing posts with label xenserver. Show all posts
Showing posts with label xenserver. Show all posts

Sunday, June 28, 2015

Xenserver / linux software raid

I want my Storage Repository (SR) run under the software RAID (RAID1). My xenserver version 6.5. XenServer 6.5 do not load soft raid kernel modules on boot. To load soft raid manually run :

modprobe raid1

To load the soft raid module on boot, we can follow this steps : http://discussions.citrix.com/topic/360943-software-raid-mdadm-on-xenserver-65-unexpected-failure/?p=1855912

To build the RAID array :
 
mknod /dev/md1 b 9 1

mdadm --create /dev/md1 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1


/dev/sdb1
and
/dev/sdc1
is using linux raid autodetect as the partition type. Use fdisk to create those partition.

To check the RAID building process :
cat /proc/mdstat

reference :