proxmox-auto-install-assistant device-match mutliple disk by their SERIAL_ID ?

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Hi,

I have a machine with 8 disks from the same model (pretty common situation for a new server), I'm trying to match 2 of the disks for a ZFS RAID1 install by using their ID_SERIAL as follows:

Code: 
[disk-setup]
filesystem = "zfs"
zfs.raid = "raid1"
filter.ID_SERIAL="*194K"
filter.ID_SERIAL="*191V"

However I get the following error:

Code: 
Checking provided answer file...
Error parsing answer file: TOML parse error at line 23, column 1
   |
23 | filter.ID_SERIAL="*191V"
   | ^
duplicate key `ID_SERIAL` in table `disk-setup`

I managed to make it work thanks to having two serial matches by using :

Code: 
[disk-setup]
filesystem = "zfs"
zfs.raid = "raid1"
filter.ID_SERIAL="*194K"
filter.ID_SERIAL_SHORT="*191V"

But this will work only up to two disks.

Is there a way to match more than two disks by ID_SERIAL?
 
fiona said:
Hi,
AFAIK, you can't define arbitrary matching with filters: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Automated_Installation#Filter_Syntax

Maybe you can use *19[14][VK]? But please note that this will also match disks whose serial ends with 194V and 191K.
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Yes that's another way when you're able to match the set of disks you want the installer to choose.

May be copying the disk_list syntax for filter.xxx would be a nice addition to the tool:

Code: 
filter.ID_SERIAL= ["*194K","*191V"]

I don't think I'm alone wanting to do a RAID1 for system install and leave the rest to another ZFS pool or ceph (and do all that via IPMI without having physical access to the machine).
 
guerby said:
Yes that's another way when you're able to match the set of disks you want the installer to choose.

May be copying the disk_list syntax for filter.xxx would be a nice addition to the tool:

Code: 
filter.ID_SERIAL= ["*194K","*191V"]

I don't think I'm alone wanting to do a RAID1 for system install and leave the rest to another ZFS pool or ceph (and do all that via IPMI without having physical access to the machine).
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Sounds sensible to me. Feel free to add a feature request for this, so it doesn't get lost in the forum: https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/
 
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