Failed to install Xen server (XCP -ng 7.6)

[Daniel Ben Yosef]

Hello,

I was issued with a task to install the XCP -ng 7.6 on my DELL R630 and R430 servers with 8 900GB disks using raid 5 +1 (7 disks and 1 HS) , and I'm facing an issue.

 

I'm  getting the following message in the installation prep phase - "failed to create root filesystem mke2fs   1 .42 .9..." 

Now, I have configured a Raid 5 +1 with 900 GB Disks ( 7 disks and 1 HS) when the message first appeared.

Also, 600Gb disks with raid 5 (7 disks and 1 HS) also failed.

so I tried to install on 2 900GB disks with raid 1 - also got the same error.

 

However , I have successfully installed the software on 2 146GB disks with raid 1 and on 2 600GB disks with raid 1.

 

I'm starting to think that the XCP-ng software is having hard time with large disk space.

can anyone point out a fix for this issue?

 

Thanks for the help,

Daniel.

[Tobias Kreidl]

This forum is for XenServer, not XCP-ng. I'd suggest posting your issue there, at: https://xcp-ng.org/forum/

 

That said, it may be an issue of your RAID controller perhaps not being compatible. I'd try installing just a single disk perhaps first to see if storage works OK under those circumstances.

 

-=Tobias

[Alan Lantz]

I don't think either 4k  and 512E drives are supported in XenServer, XCP-ng may have the same limitation.

 

--Alan--

 

[Tobias Kreidl]

Some 512 drives are supported, but not 4k for sure and I don't think the 5e, either.