How to attach USB drive as a local Storage on XenServer

How to attach USB drive as a local Storage on XenServer

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Article ID: CTX205551

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Description

To attach a USB drive as a local storage on XenServer Host.

Instructions

  1. Plug in USB drive.
  2. Open up the CLI console.
  3. Check disks that are currently available:
# fdisk -l
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NOTE: Disk /dev/sdb is 512mb usb drive.
NOTE: In some scenarios you may need to do a ‘pvcreate /dev/xxx’ to recognize it.
 
  1. Now to check what ID the harddrive has assigned. Change directory…
# cd /dev/disk/by-id/
…and list the disks:
# ls
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NOTE: USB drive ID is "usb-USB_Flash_Drive_AA04012700007933" in this case.
 
  1. Run the following command to create an LVM based local storage:
# xe sr-create type=lvm content-type=user device-config:device=/dev/disk/by-id/usb-USB_Flash_Drive_AA04012700007933 name-label=”Local USB Storage” host-uuid=<UUID of the host> shared=false

NOTE: The output of the "xe sr-create" command will be a uuid for the created SR.
NOTE: In the above command type can EXT as well. It will create a file based storage repository and is thin provisioned.
 
  1. Then we can see it in XenCenter and use it.
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