In my experience with other users on the IRC channel SAS HBAs have never worked as a form of shared storage. I always assumed this was intentional since it was never listed as supported form of shared storage.
-----Original Message----- From: Chiradeep Vittal [mailto:chiradeep.vit...@citrix.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 11:40 AM To: cloudstack-users@incubator.apache.org Cc: Edison Su Subject: Re: SAS HBA issue This is strange: [{"storage.PrimaryStorageDownloadCommand":{"localPath":"/mnt/3affc302-95a1- 3290-b2c1-63d3890dc8f9","poolUuid":"dc04c156-fb14-cd4e-9fd4-bb09236d4293"," poolId":205,"secondaryStorageUrl":"nfs://172.20.64.4/home/export/secondary" ,"primaryStorageUrl":"nfs://localhost/dc04c156-fb14-cd4e-9fd4-bb09236d4293" ,"url":"nfs://172.20.64.4/home/export/secondary/template/tmpl/1/1/","format ":"VHD","accountId":1,"name":"routing-1","wait":10800}}] } This is an attempt to copy from secondary storage to primary storage. As you can see the primary storage URL doesn't look kosher. On 2/20/13 7:16 AM, "Tim Schultheiss" <tschulthe...@dynamicquest.com> wrote: >I posted a snippet of the management server log here: >http://pastebin.com/1Pi0Bvyd >The full log is too large to post. > >-----Original Message----- >From: Chiradeep Vittal [mailto:chiradeep.vit...@citrix.com] >Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 3:56 PM >To: cloudstack-users@incubator.apache.org >Subject: Re: SAS HBA issue > >Could you paste your logs somewhere (e.g., paste bin) > >On 2/18/13 8:50 AM, "Tim Schultheiss" <tschulthe...@dynamicquest.com> >wrote: > >>I've got a problem with Cloudstack not able to access the primary >>storage server I've set up for a new cluster. They're Xen 6.02 machines >>connected via SAS HBAs to a Dell MD3200. I configured the group in >>XenCenter, and have no trouble creating VMs in that environment. I can >>import them into Cloudstack, and the storage registers in Cloudstack >>using the PreSetup option, but the system VMs fail to deploy. Checking >>the error log, it looks like it cannot write to the primary storage. >>I've tried removing and adding the storage back in, but I cannot see >>any errors during that process. >> >>This is a Cloudstack 4.0.1 environment that was recently upgraded from >>4.0.0, the management server is running CentOS 6.2 >> > > >