[ovirt-users] Crate brick button gray out.

[Iosif Radu]

The only thing that worked was filling the disk with zeros. I tried delete
all partitions and create a single one without format it or mount it and it
didn't work.
Thanks for your help knarra !

On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 1:15 PM, knarra <knarra at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 11/14/2015 03:55 PM, Iosif Radu wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> thank you for your answer. here <https://imgur.com/LPtgh8N> are the disks
> of the test vm. The sdb1 device is the one I want to use it for gluster
> setup.
> As you can see is locked. What exactly can I do to unlock it? On the VM
> side, the hard-disk is partitioned and mounted.
>
>
> umount the disk and fill it with zeros using dd command if you do not have
> any data in the disk and click on the sync button. you should see the disk
> with out the lock symbol.
>
>  Add a new disk and click on the sync button so that you can see the newly
> added disk with out lock symbol.
>
>  Otherwise, create another parition inside the existing disk and click on
> sync button. you should be able to see the device with out lock.
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 9:42 AM, knarra <knarra at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> On 11/12/2015 09:16 PM, Iosif Radu wrote:
>>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> brand new with ovirt. I'm trying to use it to manage my gluster set-up.
>> For testing purpose I've installed 3 Centos 7 machines, one for the
>> engine and the other two as glusterfs nodes.
>> All machines are using the 3.6 repo version. Both nodes have an extra
>> hard disk to be used by gluster.
>>
>> Everything went smotth, I activated and installed the nodes and I have no
>> errors in engine.log or in deploy logs.
>>
>> My understanding was that I can create bricks and use them to create
>> volumes in ovirt.
>>
>> The extra hard disks I have for nodes are formated as xfs and mounted. I
>> can see them in the engine admin interface but the "create brick" button is
>> grayed out.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>     Once user selects a disk which is free then the create brick button
>> will get enabled.
>>
>> If you have some disks listed under the storage devices sub tab which
>> does not have a lock symbol associated with it, then select the disk and
>> you can see that create brick button will be enabled.
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> Thanks
>> kasturi.
>>
>>
>>
>
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