Integrated Storage pass drive serial to GUI

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Tim Dancer

November 05, 2014 14:31

We really need to see what the serial number of the drives are. Please can we add this feature.

Running this command yields a result for sata drives...

smartctl -d sat+megaraid,1 -a /dev/sda

...yet if the drive is behind a raid controller in the case of LSI 9260-8i (which doesn't support JBOD), there is no way to know what drive is in what bay, unless the serial number is kept and the bay noted.

If OnApp could use the disks serial number with their unique ID, we would kill two birds with one stone. It would assist in asset management and RMA's for under warranty drives.

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  Stuart Haresnape November 14, 2014 10:34

  Hi Tim

  I'll pass this over to our storage PM and ask him to take a look.

  Regards

  Stuart

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  John Thomson November 14, 2014 11:40

  Hi Tim,

  This feature is already implemented. We generate a unique SCSI_ID for use in the OnApp platform that is used and corresponds to the UI value. To use it please run the following command from your HV:

  [root@192.168.1.24 ~]# onapp_scsi_id /dev/<drive path>

  e.g.

  [root@192.168.1.24 ~]# onapp_scsi_id /dev/cciss/c0d0

  returns ID_SCSI_SERIAL and ID_SERIAL.

  In the UI the drive will then be shown with (ID_SERIAL)_(ID_SCSI_SERIAL).

  Hope that this helps. If not please add a comment on this thread.

  Thanks!

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  Tim Dancer November 14, 2014 13:42

  Hi Stuart,

  Thanks for the feedback.

  Unfortunately, with an LSI2108 controller JBOD is not supported so each drive has to be raid 0 and that doesn't pass through the actual drive serial number as the scsi id. I see the functionality you describe on HV's with JBOD cards. I suppose what I'm looking for is a method of getting past the limitations of the LSI2108 based cards.

  Regards,
  Tim

   

   

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