Hi Fabian

I am using DELL R805 server with PERC 6/i RAID controller and two SAS disks. PERC 6/i is real hardware RAID controller (although cheap one). First I created RAID1 and did fast initialisation. (PERC RAID controllers has this stupid requirement that you need to initialise RAID before you can use it). After this oVirt Node installation failed every time with "Failed to partition/format".

Then I destroyed RAID1 and created it again, but this time I did full RAID initialisation (instead of fast). After that oVirt Node installation went smooth. 

The thing is that I never do full initialisation when I install any OS, because it is very slow process and can take hours and I never had any problems with fast initialisation before. But apparently there is some trick with oVirt Node.

From documentation:

"Fast initialization writes zeroes to the first 8 MB and to the last 8 MB of the virtual disk so that initialization occurs in 2–3 seconds. A progress bar displays next to the selected virtual disk as it initializes."

Whereas:

"A regular (meaning full) initialization permanently destroys any data that already exists."

Hope that helps.

Edgars
 


On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Fabian Deutsch <fabiand@redhat.com> wrote:
Am Dienstag, den 22.10.2013, 00:00 +0200 schrieb Edgars M.:
> Hi, thanks for your replies..
>
>
> As suggested by Gabi C, I destroyed RAID on my RAID controller,
> re-created it and after that it worked.

Hey Edgars and Gabi,

nice that both of you could solve this problem.
Could you tell what kind of raid it was? Was it a "fake raid" or a real
raid controller, and how did the raid setup look when it failed and how
did it look afterwards?
I'd like to capture these informations to nail down this problem a bit
more.

Thanks
fabian

>
> Thanks again.
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 10:45 PM, Joey Boggs <jboggs@redhat.com>
> wrote:
>         On 10/21/2013 08:59 AM, Gabi C wrote:
>
>         > Hello!
>         >
>         >
>         > Had same problem on IBM xSeries  3650. Aparently was an RAID
>         > problem (Serve RID in my case). I had to wipe the disk,
>         > recreate the  array an wait until it was OK and only after
>         > that I manage to install.
>         >
>         >
>         >
>         > On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Edgars M.
>         > <edgars.mazurs@gmail.com> wrote:
>         >         Hi
>         >
>         >
>         >         I am trying to install oVirt Node
>         >         (ovirt-node-iso-3.0.1-1.0.2.vdsm.fc19.iso) on DELL
>         >         R805 server, but every time install fails
>         >         with Exception: RunTimeError('Failed to
>         >         partition/format'). I also
>         >         tried ovirt-node-iso-3.0.1-1.0.2.vdsm.el6.iso
>         >         version and the same error occures. I tried
>         >         different partition sizes and I always make sure
>         >         that partitions dont exceed the total disk space. I
>         >         browsed log fails and could not find anything
>         >         relevant. I am really out of ideas...
>         >
>         >
>         >         Any advise?
>         >
>         >
>         >         Thanks
>         >         Edgars
>         >
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