XenServer 5.5 local storage problem

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I can confirm that xe pdb-plug:

A: takes a very long time

and

B: doesn't talk to you at all during that time

(the gui gives you a progressbar that is meaningless and tells you nothing)

Note: if you run it from the command line using xe pdb-plug, it will say absolutely nothing until it is done

@zawmn83 said it took him 1.5 hours for 2TB and in my personal experience, it took me

  • 1 hour, 5 minutes for a 120Gb SSD
  • 50 minutes for a 6Tb Hard drive

(note: I ran the SSD from the command line, and for the 6Tb hard drive, I right-clicked the gui and hit repair)

Therefore I would tend to say that regardless of the size of your storage repository, it will take between 1.5 hours and 1 hour, depending on how fast your server runs.

TLDR: you should let it run at least an hour, if not longer

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Updated on September 17, 2022

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  • Jason Nerer
    Jason Nerer over 1 year

    I have the following problem with a Citrix XenServer 5.5. I had to physically move the host, so I shut down all machines via console:

    xe vm-shutdown force=true vm=my-machine-uuis-s
    

    After that I shut down the machine itself by issuing:

    halt
    

    After the reboot today the local storage repository is unplugged. I was trying to repair it via XenCenter, but I don't trust this one. So I tried:

    [root@xenserver ~]# xe pbd-list
    uuid ( RO)                  : ef6e2f3b-5825-393c-23e1-391d105c87ec
                 host-uuid ( RO): c4bcf09c-2e52-448f-8210-df5d13bd33a9
                   sr-uuid ( RO): 2fb3be9c-075c-53ed-acb6-42f0c4ad0614
             device-config (MRO): device: /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD5001ABYS-_WD-WCAS83698154,/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD5001ABYS-_WD-WCAS83694262
    currently-attached ( RO): false
    

    To reattach the storage I issued:

    xe pbd-plug uuid=ef6e2f3b-5825-393c-23e1-391d105c87ec
    

    That one is running now for a while but not talking to me. The local repo has around 1TB. Should I wait, or are there any other options to reattach the local repo?

    What could have caused this problem? Any ideas?

    Thx. J

    • zawmn83
      zawmn83 over 9 years
      I also got the same problem frequently with my Xen Server 6.2. My local repo is about 2TB size. It takes about 1.5 hour to repair or pbd-plug.