Errors when creating First Volume on XSAN. Cannot Initialize

Question

Hi. I'm having trouble with creating my first Volume in XSan.
My Setup consist of :
1x XRAID with 4disks in Upper Controller(1-7 disks)
Configured as 2x Stripe RAID. Each of them is 927GB.
LUN 0 = 927GB
LUN 1 = 927GB
1x SilkWorm 3250 8port Fiber Switch
1x Apple XServe (Dual 2Ghz, 3GB RAM) running Mac Os X Server 10.4.7
Serves as Controller for XSAN.
XSan 1.3 Build 8M116
Xsan Client Version 2.7.200 Build 92.1
Xsan Server Version 2.7.200 Build 92.1
My following setup is causing errors :
FirstVolume(Block Alloc Size=4kb, Allocation Strategy=Round Robin, Windows ID Mapping=Generate IDs from GUID)
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StoragePoolMetaData(Journal Data only, Stripe Breadth=256, Multipath Method=Rotate)
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| LUN0(Capacity=927GB, Dev Name=/dev/rdisk3, LUN ID=0, WWN:50:00:39:30:00:01:5C:BB:0)
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StoragePoolUserData(User Data Only, Stripe Breadth=256, MultiPath Method=Rotate)
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LUN1(Capacity=927GB, Dev Name=/dev/rdisk2, LUN ID=1, WWN:50:00:39:30:00:01:5C:BB:1)
When I press "SAVE" Button to save the newly(first) volume, it comes with a message below in the
XSan Admin Interface GUI : Error while writing settings (Cannot initialize volume)
And my system.log file contains the following messages :
Aug 8 16:10:23 XServer fsmpm[416]: PortMapper: waking up diskscan thread.
Aug 8 16:10:24 XServer fsmpm[416]: PortMapper: launching configuration reload thread
Aug 8 16:10:24 XServer fsmpm[416]: PortMapper: fsmpm configuration reload initiated (flags FFFFFFFF)
Aug 8 16:10:24 XServer fsmpm[416]: PortMapper: fsmpm configuration reload complete
Aug 8 16:10:24 mail servermgrd: xsan: [51/1129D40] ERROR: initializevolumenamed(FirstVolume): cvmkfs had an error (status 2). Output: [Xsan File System Initializer.\n\nRe-initializing file system 'FirstVolume'.\n\nShared Meta Data File System.\nMeta Data Root is on "StoragePoolMetaData".\nFatal: Cannot initialize stripe groups for I/O - Server could not find any Meta-Data devices!\n\n\nThe creation of file system 'FirstVolume' failed - Bad file descriptor.\n]. Error: []
Any ideas of what is going on?
I dosn't matter, if the LUNs are Mirror or Stripe, allways failes with the creation of the first volume.
Any help would be apriciated. Thanks alot.
Best regards,
Svavar O
[email protected] - Reykjavik - Iceland
PowerMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.7)
XServe - Mac OS X Server 10.4.7   Mac OS X (10.4.7)  

Answer 1

Hi.
Well, at first.
But I moved 2x of the disks to the second controller.
So my setup as now, 2x disks on the first, and 2x on the second controller.
Make a Volume, Make a Storage Pool for the MetaData containing the disks on the first controller.
Then I make a Data Storage Pool containing the disks on the second controller.
And I get the same errors over, and over again.
What I really find interesting, is this error :
Aug 16 13:22:28 mail servermgrd: xsan: [18165/302DA0] ERROR: getfsm_processstats(MiscVol): Unable to find pid of fsm
If I do, ps -ax I cannot see any running process of "fsm"
only "fsmpm".
Any thoughts? This is getting really really boring.
As I need to migrate 2TB into the newly bought XSAN setup.
Thanks again. And hope for a solution.
Best regards,
Svavar O
Reykjavik - Iceland
PowerMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.7)