Setting Up Storage Pool - Invalid Parameter

Hey all,
I've run in to an issue when trying to create a Storage Pool in Windows Server 2012 R2. I have two 4TB drives and I'm trying to create a pool out of them (intent is to Mirror), but when I've gone through the pool creation wizard I simply get the following
error:
"Could not create storage pool. Invalid Parameter"
Does anyone have any hints on where to start diagnosing this? Both drives are wiped, both drives can be pooled, and both have different uniqueIDs.
Thanks in advance!

Hi,
Which type of the physical disks are added to the Storage Pool? Are the virtual hard drives (VHDs) created by Windows Azure? If so, the physical disk size advertised by Azure VHDs is not compatible with Windows Server 2012 R2 Storage Spaces.
For more detailed information, you could refer to the thread below:
Error creating new Storage Pool in 2012R2 "invalid parameter"
If the Windws Server 2012 R2 is a virtual machine on Windows Azure, please also check if there is any error message in the Event Log.
Best Regards,
Mandy
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Thanks for the reply,
The Windows Server 2012 R2 is on my own physical server and isn't virtualized. I'm simply trying to create a new storage pool from two physical HDD:s, the disks are Seagate 4TB disks. Both the disks are listed in the storage pool creation wizard. I checked
the Event Log also but there's nothing, the lack of proper error information is making this a bit challenging to figure out.
I've also tried using PowerShell to do the work:
New-StoragePool -FriendlyName POOL1 -StorageSubSystemFriendlyName (Get-StorageSubSystem).FriendlyName -PhysicalDisks (Get-PhysicalDisk -CanPool $true)
The same error results:
New-StoragePool : Invalid Parameter
At line:1 char:1
+ New-StoragePool -FriendlyName POOL1 -StorageSubSystemFriendlyName (Get-StorageSu ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (StorageWMI:ROOT/Microsoft/...torageSubSystem) [New-StoragePool], CimException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : StorageWMI 5,New-StoragePool

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Ok - you may have bumped into this.
WMF 3.0 is incompatible with some Microsoft products including
DPM 2010.
Windows Management Framework 3.0 (WMF 3.0), which
includes PowerShell 3.0, was made available Dec. 11 on Windows Update as an
optional update but has since been pulled.
More information is available on http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2012/12/20/windows-management-framework-3-0-compatibility-update.aspx
Resolution
To resolve this issue, uninstall KB2506146 or KB2506143.
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Libvirt: Unable to define LVM storage pool

Hello,
I'm trying to define an LVM storage pool for my virtual machines using KVM/libvirt. The configuration looks like this:
<pool type="logical">
<name>vol0</name>
<source>
<device path="/dev/md0"/>
</source>
<target>
<path>/dev/vol0</path>
</target>
</pool>
The problem is, that this LVM group is already active (other vms running using volumes inside this group) and 'virsh pool-start vol0' wants me to disable it. Is there any way to start the pool without "deactivate" the volume group?
virsh pool-start vol0
error: internal error '/sbin/vgchange -an vol0' exited with non-zero status 5 and signal 0: Can't deactivate volume group "vol0" with 14 open logical volume(s)
Further, I'm a bit curious that libvirt might recreate the volume group and therefore deletes all the content during the building process.
Would appreciate any advice
Regards,
Jonas

maahes wrote:
did so now, only now I'm getting a slightly different error: could not find udevd no such file or directory. I checked both grub.cfg's and my mkinitcpio.conf and there's no listing for udevd ....which I've never heard of, so I assumed it was a typo?
For clarification: udev is in the mkinitcpio.
I'm not sure whether I yet have a good intuition for how you have your machine set up, but I suspect you need to include a cryptdevice flag to the kernel in your grub config. The file isn't found because the kernel doesn't know your root directory needs decrypting first.
My setup is an LVM over LUKS over LVM sandwich. To boot into my system, the grub.cfg contains the line:
linux /vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/mapper/cryptvg-root cryptdevice=/dev/mapper/vg-crypt:root rootfstype=ext4 pcie_aspm=force acpi_osi=Linux acpi_backlight=vendor i915.i915_enable_rc6=1 i915.i915_enable_fbc=1 i915.lvds_downclock=1 ro
Now, most of those flags don't have anything to do with your problem, but note the cryptdevice. It tells the kernel it's dealing with an encrypted filesystem sitting in a logical volume called crypt on a volume group called vg. The bit after the colon tells the kernel to associate this encrypted filesystem with /dev/mapper/root.
As for how to fix your system, I'm afraid I still feel a bit fuzzy about how your LVM and encrypted layers relate to each other, whether you have LVM over LUKS, or LUKS over LVM, or something else. Was there a particular how-to that you followed?

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