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Python-based utility for interacting with devices supporting a Redfish Service
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ilorest createlogicaldrive based on drive size or Model? #48

Closed ralfgro closed 2 years ago

ralfgro commented 2 years ago

I really tried hard to understand, but I failed. How can I create a Raid1 with devices of a certain size?

ilorest createlogicaldrive quickdrive Raid1 2 SSD SATA Internal --controller=0

ilorest createlogicaldrive customdrive Raid1 1I:3:2,1I:3:1 SAS --controller=0

This worked for me and is fine for ESXi servers with only 2 local drives, or if I know the index/location. But we have servers with drives used for datastores. Usually they are different in size.

So how can user drives by type or size or index?

ilorest smartarray --physicaldrives

Discovering data...Done Controllers: [0]: Slot 0 - HPE Smart Array E208i-a SR Gen10 Physical Drives: [1I:3:2]: Model VK000480GWTTA, Location 1I:3:2, Type SSD, Serial xxxx - 457862 MiB [1I:3:1]: Model VK000480GWTTA, Location 1I:3:1, Type SSD, Serial xxxx - 457862 MiB

rajeevkallur commented 2 years ago

@ralfgro , it is smartarray controller which is doing this work in the background. If the drives are of different size, RAID 1 will be created using smaller drive size. The controller will apply all RAID rules whether it is raid 0, raid1 , raid5, raid10 etc... You can try the command in the intended server and let us know the outcome.