First we should have an overview of the hardware on this server. There are two Perc controllers, a Perc5i and a Perc6i. The Perc5 has an MD1000 drive enclosure attached and the Perc6 has the internal drives attached.
Perc6/i:
OS Disk RAID 1 278GB
Internal Storage 836GB
Perc5/i:
MD1000 RAID 10 External Storage 4.88TB
Over the next few posts I will set the storage up as follows:
/dev/sdb will be set up as an NFS export for VMware.
/dev/sdc will be set up as an iSCSI mount for VMware.
From dmesg:
sda: sdb: sdc: sda1 sda2 sd 0:2:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk sd 0:2:1:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk sd 1:2:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 sr 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 dracut: Scanning devices sda2 for LVM logical volumes vg_testlabstorage5/lv_root vg_testlabstorage5/lv_swap dracut: inactive '/dev/vg_testlabstorage5/lv_root' [50.00 GiB] inherit dracut: inactive '/dev/vg_testlabstorage5/lv_home' [222.54 GiB] inherit dracut: inactive '/dev/vg_testlabstorage5/lv_swap' [5.84 GiB] inherit
Create Partition
Setting our partition table wit parted because they are larger than 2TB. This snippet shows what happens when you don’t have a partition table.
(parted) select /dev/sdd Using /dev/sdd (parted) print Error: /dev/sdd: unrecognised disk label (parted) mklabel New disk label type? gpt (parted) print Model: DELL PERC 5/E Adapter (scsi) Disk /dev/sdd: 2249GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: gpt Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
I want to create a partition table on /dev/sdb.
parted /dev/sdb (parted) print Model: DELL PERC 6/i (scsi) Disk /dev/sdb: 898GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: gpt Number Start End Size File system Name Flags (parted) unit GB (parted) print Model: DELL PERC 6/i (scsi) Disk /dev/sdb: 898GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: gpt Number Start End Size File system Name Flags (parted) mkpart primary 0.00GB 898GB (parted) print Model: DELL PERC 6/i (scsi) Disk /dev/sdb: 898GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: gpt Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 0.00GB 898GB 898GB primary
Create file system
The partition /dev/sdb1 has been created but does not have a file system laid down. If you want to put a simple file system on it and mount it follow the steps below. If you want to use LVM skip below.
Now we want to put an ext4 file system.
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb1 mke2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010) Filesystem label= OS type: Linux Block size=4096 (log=2) Fragment size=4096 (log=2) Stride=0 blocks, Stripe width=0 blocks 54829056 inodes, 219315712 blocks 10965785 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user First data block=0 Maximum filesystem blocks=4294967296 6693 block groups 32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group 8192 inodes per group Superblock backups stored on blocks: 32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208, 4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872, 71663616, 78675968, 102400000, 214990848 Writing inode tables: done Creating journal (32768 blocks): done Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done This filesystem will be automatically checked every 31 mounts or 180 days, whichever comes first. Use tune2fs -c or -i to override.
Mount File System
Finally a simple mount of the file system.
mkdir /internal_storage mount -t ext4 /dev/sdb1 /internal_storage
LVM
I want to work with the logical volume manager (LVM).
pvcreate /dev/sdb1 Physical volume "/dev/sdb1" successfully created vgcreate vg_internal_storage -l 0 -p 0 -s 32m /dev/sdb1 Volume group "vg_internal_storage" successfully created vgchange -ay vg_internal_storage 0 logical volume(s) in volume group "vg_internal_storage" now active lvcreate -L 836g -r auto -n lv_internal_storage vg_internal_storage Logical volume "lv_internal_storage" created vgscan Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... Found volume group "vg_internal_storage" using metadata type lvm2 Found volume group "vg_testlabstorage5" using metadata type lvm2 mkfs.ext4 /dev/vg_internal_storage/lv_internal_storage mount /dev/vg_internal_storage/lv_internal_storage /internal_storage/
Add the file system and mount point to /etc/fstab.
cat /etc/fstab | grep -v \# /dev/mapper/vg_testlabstorage5-lv_root / ext4 defaults 1 1 UUID=9add185a-eef1-45f0-8c92-a0f6909d6e36 /boot ext4 defaults 1 2 /dev/mapper/vg_testlabstorage5-lv_home /home ext4 defaults 1 2 /dev/mapper/vg_testlabstorage5-lv_swap swap swap defaults 0 0 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/mapper/vg_internal_storage-lv_internal_storage /internal_storage ext4 defaults 1 1
NFS share for VMware
cat /etc/exports
/internal_storage 172.22.104.70(rw,sync,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check)
/internal_storage 172.22.104.71(rw,sync,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check)
/internal_storage 172.22.104.72(rw,sync,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check)
/internal_storage 172.22.104.73(rw,sync,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check)
/etc/init.d/nfs start
Starting NFS services: [ OK ]
Starting NFS quotas: [ OK ]
Starting NFS mountd: [ OK ]
Stopping RPC idmapd: [ OK ]
Starting RPC idmapd: [ OK ]
Starting NFS daemon: [ OK ]
chkconfig nfs on
rpcinfo | grep nfs
100003 2 tcp 0.0.0.0.8.1 nfs superuser
100003 3 tcp 0.0.0.0.8.1 nfs superuser
100003 4 tcp 0.0.0.0.8.1 nfs superuser
100227 2 tcp 0.0.0.0.8.1 nfs_acl superuser
100227 3 tcp 0.0.0.0.8.1 nfs_acl superuser
100003 2 udp 0.0.0.0.8.1 nfs superuser
100003 3 udp 0.0.0.0.8.1 nfs superuser
100003 4 udp 0.0.0.0.8.1 nfs superuser
100227 2 udp 0.0.0.0.8.1 nfs_acl superuser
100227 3 udp 0.0.0.0.8.1 nfs_acl superuser
100003 2 tcp6 ::.8.1 nfs superuser
100003 3 tcp6 ::.8.1 nfs superuser
100003 4 tcp6 ::.8.1 nfs superuser
100227 2 tcp6 ::.8.1 nfs_acl superuser
100227 3 tcp6 ::.8.1 nfs_acl superuser
100003 2 udp6 ::.8.1 nfs superuser
100003 3 udp6 ::.8.1 nfs superuser
100003 4 udp6 ::.8.1 nfs superuser
100227 2 udp6 ::.8.1 nfs_acl superuser
100227 3 udp6 ::.8.1 nfs_acl superuser
Sources:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/fdisk-unable-to-create-partition-greater-2tb.html
http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2011/09/parted-command-examples/
http://sakafi.wordpress.com/2008/08/23/how-to-use-parted-for-creating-patition-larger-that-2-tb/
