Servus Community,
Yesterday we created a new logical volume in the Command Line Interface with the following command:
/opt/smartstorageadmin/ssacli/bin/ssacli ctrl slot=0 create type=ld drives=1I:1:17,1I:1:18,1I:1:19,1I:1:20,1I:1:21,1I:1:22,1I:1:23 raid=6
The volume was immediately visible in the web GUI of our ESX 6.5 and we were able to create a new data store there. This is also usable and we already install some VMDKs there.
What we don't know is the status of the Parity Initialization Progress display, which is still at 0%. For another volume, which already existed and was not created with the CLI, but in the controller BIOS, it will be displayed there: Initialization Completed:
For the new, CLI created volume we got this output:
---snip---
/opt/smartstorageadmin/ssacli/bin/ssacli ctrl slot=0 ld 2 show
Smart Array P440ar in Slot 0 (Embedded)
Array B
Logical Drive: 2
Size: 5.46 TB
Fault Tolerance: 6
Heads: 255
Sectors Per Track: 32
Cylinders: 65535
Strip Size: 256 KB
Full Stripe Size: 1280 KB
Status: OK
Unrecoverable Media Errors: None
MultiDomain Status: OK
Caching: Enabled
Parity Initialization Status: In Progress
Parity Initialization Progress: 0% complete
Unique Identifier: 600508B1001C4828A9D9A8C1870E0F8A
Logical Drive Label: 06C4F007PDNLH0BRH78D1217CE
Drive Type: Data
LD Acceleration Method: Controller Cache
---snap---
And for the existing, controller BIOS created Volume, we got this output:
---snip---
[root@localhost:/opt/smartstorageadmin/ssacli/bin] ./ssacli ctrl slot=0 ld 1 show
Smart Array P440ar in Slot 0 (Embedded)
Array A
Logical Drive: 1
Size: 6.55 TB
Fault Tolerance: 6
Heads: 255
Sectors Per Track: 32
Cylinders: 65535
Strip Size: 256 KB
Full Stripe Size: 1536 KB
Status: OK
Unrecoverable Media Errors: None
MultiDomain Status: OK
Caching: Enabled
Parity Initialization Status: Initialization Completed
Unique Identifier: 600508B1001C0FC35B29727B79F53993
Logical Drive Label: 01B0CE71PDNLH0BRH78D12FD28
Drive Type: Data
LD Acceleration Method: Controller Cache
---snap---
We assume that the output 0% is incorrect, but it would be interesting what we have to do, to update it, to the current correct value...
Thx & Bye Tom