Fiber san direct to proxmox

[KungFuLemonade]

Hi guys

total new guy here trying my best but.. well its not good enough i have a msa 2040 connected by fiber into my hp gen 9 dl380 and proxmox installed on the tin.

in proxmox i can see this


i can see all 4 fiber connections. and i have installed muitipath

but i cant add it as a lvm disk as its saying there are no unused disks!

any help would be awesome cheers!

 

[Dominic]

That's probably because all your MSA 2040 disks display "Usage ext4" instead of "Usage No" in the screenshot.

Could you please also post the following?

cat /etc/pve/storage.cfg

 

[KungFuLemonade]

Thanks, I tried to map it as a directory, but i'm guessing that I should be mounting it as LVM?

Here's the output.

dir: local path /var/lib/vz content iso,backup,vztmpl lvmthin: local-lvm thinpool data vgname pve content rootdir,images lvm: VMStorage vgname VMStorage content rootdir,images nodes PVE01 shared 0 dir: san1 path /media/san1/


This is the fdisk
root@PVE01:~# fdisk -l /dev/mapper/mpath0 Disk /dev/mapper/mpath0: 112.8 TiB, 123999996608512 bytes, 242187493376 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 1048576 bytes

 

[Dominic]

Yes, I would recommend exporting one big LUN and then set up LVM on top of that LUN (in the PVE GUI).

If you add the iSCSI storage using the GUI you have to pay attention to the "Use LUNs directly" checkbox.
In case you haven't seen it yet: There are helpful Wiki pages about iSCSI generally and multipath.

 

[KungFuLemonade]

Thanks for the reply. ok so im looking at that but really struggling with this where would i find the iqn of the san? or is this the 4 fc ports

 

[anchep]

Can you put your config file to here , I have the same question, I'm trying ...

 

[anchep]

4 fc can't use iscsi, is like local disk. so use multipath chang it to a single disk ?
and any node use same config ?

 

[bbgeek17]

Yes, multipath is highly recommended here, I would say required. The problem for original poster was that "somehow" an ext4 filesystem was created on the MSA LUN. That makes the disk "used".

The original poster needs to understand what data is on that LUN by mounting the /dev/mapper/mpath0 to a temporary location and checking the mount. If the filesystem is empty or not needed, then the partition needs to be remove so that LVM can utilize it.
There are many cheat-sheets available online on how to prep the disk with LVM:
https://techknowledgeworld.wordpress.com/2015/02/21/logical-volume-manager-lvm-cheat-sheet/

In theory the Proxmox GUI should allow provisioning the mpath0 device as well.

As for multiple nodes - one has to understand the implications of using LVM on _shared_ disk:
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Storage

Specifically:
- Thin LVM is not supported on shared storage
- Thick/Regular is the only LVM variant supported for shared storage
- No snapshot support with Thick LVM

If all nodes in the cluster are configured with identical paths, have the same multipath configuration - they should also see the resulting disk. Just make sure you understand the above.

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