[ovirt-users] Crate brick button gray out.

[knarra]

On 11/14/2015 06:30 PM, Iosif Radu wrote:
> 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 !
YW :-)
>
> On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 1:15 PM, knarra <knarra at redhat.com 
> <mailto: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
>>     <mailto: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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