clonea1 Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 a couple of months ago i tried to use drive pool on a server that had storage bus cache enabled and drive pool would not work with the drives that where backed by a SSD. do you know if this has been sorted out ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 Since this is the first I've heard of it, I can confidently say that no, it hasn't. And how is this configured? Hardware based? Software based? Dynamic disks? etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 clonea1 Posted February 24, 2022 Author Share Posted February 24, 2022 o boy, and the only way i can reproduce it for you is to nuke a 60TB of storage .... software defined so on server 2022 you can layer a flash devices as a cache device and bind it to a spindle. so if you have say 16 spindles and 4 SSD's those 4 SSDS will bind to 4 hdd's each and they will serve as a write buffer and/or read cache. the problem i had when i tried to configure this when i went to add the drive to a pool it would 'add' but not really add and just hang, i wish i took some logs from back then darn it i also may be miss remembering specific details. unfortunately to build the test case is a destructive process i do have all my binding setup currently, maybe i can generate some vdisks but i dont think that was the scenario i was doing originally Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 clonea1 Posted February 24, 2022 Author Share Posted February 24, 2022 o i think i found old logs from that time frame at the end of the day maybe it was just that whatever updates you needed for server2022 was all that was needed, i was also having the same issue with drive binder when i downloaded a trial for that DrivePool.Service-2021-09-16.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 clonea1 Posted February 24, 2022 Author Share Posted February 24, 2022 this could have been my issue, trying to just build a new pool in this case the add just hangs this is using the current production release version and the current version of server 2022 and with storage bus enabled Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 clonea1 Posted February 24, 2022 Author Share Posted February 24, 2022 ok here is the repo it evently goes green on the add bar but the pool doesnt get created and the ssd temp that i was trying to add gets its add button back and if you click add again it then gives a error saying you cant add it to the same pool already DrivePool.Service-2022-02-23.log DrivePool.CoveFs.etl ErrorReport_2022_02_23-11_47_48.0.saencryptedreport ErrorReport_2022_02_23-11_59_15.3.saencryptedreport Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 clonea1 Posted February 24, 2022 Author Share Posted February 24, 2022 ok so some more details if i do a get physical disk it has a drive id of 500~ this means that windows this its a bus cache participant either target or cache PS V:\> Get-PhysicalDisk -FriendlyName *cove* Number FriendlyName SerialNumber MediaType CanPool OperationalStatus HealthStatus Usage Size ------ ------------ ------------ --------- ------- ----------------- ------------ ----- ---- 534 COVECUBE CoveFsDisk_____ {1030eff7-2ab2-4627-aef3-0da89a10773c} Unspecified False OK Healthy Auto-Select 2 TB and when i try to disable the disk to make it non eligible for storage bus i get a error that its the wrong type of disk to even be eligible in the first place PS V:\> Get-PhysicalDisk -FriendlyName *cove* | Disable-StorageBusDisk Exception setting "BusType": "Cannot convert value "File Backed Virtual" to type "Microsoft.Windows.Storage.Core.BusType". Error: "Unable to match the identifier name File Backed Virtual to a valid enumerator name. Specify one of the following enumerator names and try again: Unknown, Scsi, Atapi, Ata, IEEE1394, Ssa, Fibre, Usb, RAID, iScsi, Sas, Sata, Sd, Mmc, Virtual, FileBackedVirtual, Spaces, Nvme, SCM, Ufs, Max"" At C:\WINDOWS\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules\StorageBusCache\StorageBusCache.psm1:1233 char:13 + $devices[$deviceGuid].BusType = $phyDisk.BusType + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], SetValueInvocationException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ExceptionWhenSetting you wont be able to repo this in hyperv unless you do full disk mounting, as a VMDK disk in hyper v is also not eligable so you may need to test on physical hardware, or mark a bunch of drives as offline on the hyperv host and then do direct full mounts on the virtual machine then its as simple as bring those disks in to server 2022 and fresh virgin disks then do enable-storagebuscache it will enumerate eligable disks and create a new storagebuscache storage space pool and will bind your SSDs to HDDS, so your test case will need to have both. then you can create some virtual disks and then try to add them to drive pool PS V:\> New-Volume -StoragePoolFriendlyName storagebus -MediaType ssd -FriendlyName ssdtemp -Size 1gb -ProvisioningType Fixed -DriveLetter y -FileSystem ReFS DriveLetter FriendlyName FileSystemType DriveType HealthStatus OperationalStatus SizeRemaining Size ----------- ------------ -------------- --------- ------------ ----------------- ------------- ---- Y ssdtemp ReFS Fixed Healthy OK 6.93 GB 7.94 GB PS V:\> New-Volume -StoragePoolFriendlyName storagebus -MediaType hdd -FriendlyName hddtemp -Size 1gb -ProvisioningType Fixed -DriveLetter w -FileSystem ReFS DriveLetter FriendlyName FileSystemType DriveType HealthStatus OperationalStatus SizeRemaining Size ----------- ------------ -------------- --------- ------------ ----------------- ------------- ---- W hddtemp ReFS Fixed Healthy OK 6.93 GB 7.94 GB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 clonea1 Posted February 24, 2022 Author Share Posted February 24, 2022 o i did also upgrade to the most recent beta build and same issue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 clonea1 Posted February 24, 2022 Author Share Posted February 24, 2022 intresting even though the disable command in power shell errored the drive is now a low number and the emulated disk driver is present Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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a couple of months ago i tried to use drive pool on a server that had storage bus cache enabled and drive pool would not work with the drives that where backed by a SSD. do you know if this has been sorted out ?
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