Provisioning Proxmox identify drives

[rwhitlock]

I have 20 NVME drive server that is not in production yet, and would like to proactively figure out a way to correspond a drive within ZFS to a bay. After reading through the ZFS section of the Proxmox VE Administration Guide, I’m still unsure on how to achieve this. Is there a way to blink a drive within the Proxmox GUI? If not, is there a way to rename or have a cname like solution with the bay numbers? Also, all 20 drives are exactly the same, but why are some named different?

 

[bbgeek17]

Unfortunately, there is no way from Proxmox GUI/CLI/API to blink an NVMe drive. In fact, there may not even be a way to do it from your specific server. It's heavily dependent on your BMC. Your best bet is to look into your BIOS. Dell does a decent job here on their PowerEdge servers.

If you try to make something work for yourself, keep in mind that in most cases the drive/slot mapping will depend on physical cabling and the arrangement of add-in PCIe cards. When we solved this problem for our systems, it was quite a pain since every machine is different.

Good Luck.

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[rwhitlock]

Thank you! I guess I had a brain fart because I did not even think to see if the SuperMicro X12 IPMI had that capability. It does. Problem solved.