Add a Hard Drive to XenServer

Version 6.2

adding a new hard drive i.e. /dev/sdb

1) verify the drive of interest is recognized

# cat /proc/partitions
major minor  #blocks  name

  7        0      52378 loop0
  8        0  976762584 sda
  8        1    4193297 sda1
  8        2    4193297 sda2
  8        3  968372935 sda3
  8       16 1953514584 sdb
252        0  968359936 dm-0

sdb shows up so we are good...

2) Find the disk ID of the new device

# ll /dev/disk/by-id
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  9 Jan 23 13:35 edd-int13_dev81 -> ../../sdb
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  9 Jan 23 13:35 scsi-SATA_WDC_WD10EACS-00_WD-WCASJ1527948 -> ../../sda
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jan 23 13:35 scsi-SATA_WDC_WD10EACS-00_WD-WCASJ1527948-part1 -> ../../sda1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jan 23 13:35 scsi-SATA_WDC_WD10EACS-00_WD-WCASJ1527948-part2 -> ../../sda2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jan 23 13:35 scsi-SATA_WDC_WD10EACS-00_WD-WCASJ1527948-part3 -> ../../sda3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  9 Jan 23 13:35 scsi-SATA_WDC_WD20EARS-00_WD-WMAZA2044059 -> ../../sdb

3) Find out the 'host-uuid' in XenServer

# xe host-list 
uuid ( RO)                : 89568def-9ecf-44e4-ae21-35e353c40c82
         name-label ( RW): myxenbox
   name-description ( RW): Default install of XenServer

4) Create a Storage Repository (SR) using data from above:

xe sr-create content-type=user device-config:device=/dev/disk/by-id/<scsi-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> host-uuid=<host-uuid> name-label=”Local Storage 2” shared=false type=lvm

example:

# xe sr-create content-type=user device-config:device=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD20EARS-00_WD-WMAZA2044059 host-uuid=89568def-9ecf-44e4-ae21-35e353c40c82 name-label=datastore1 shared=false type=lvm