Synergy Gen11 Logical Drive

[Theanoe]

Good morning,

We have several Synergy stacks that host 480 Gen10 and Gen11 servers.
We therefore have two Profile Templates to manage the two generations of servers.
The creation of RAID 1 for local disks is managed by profiles.
For Gen11 we have difficulties when we want to insert a blade with a RAID 1 already configured. When applying the profile, we get the following error message:

"Unable to create server profile.
The server hardware does not have the necessary unused physical drives to create the logical drive "Logical Drive 1" with the requested configuration.
Resolution Verify that the expected drives are shown as unconfigured on the Storage section of the Server Hardware page for this server. If the expected drives do not appear, power on the server and refresh the Server Hardware after POST is complete."

The workaround we found is to manually create the profile, choose the right profile template and edit the "Local storage" part by deleting the Logical Drive configuration and checking the "Import existing configuration" box.
These manual actions prevent us from automating the creation of profiles with our powershell scripts.

How can we fix this problem ?
Is-it possible to script these actions?
Here is the command we execute:
Get-OVServer -Name $name | New-OVServerProfile -name $profile_name -ServerProfileTemplate $spt_gen11 -Confirm:$false -Async

Thank you in advance for your feedback.

[ChrisLynch]

HPE OneView uses an automatic drive allocation policy for local storage settings.  That means when you specify a drive technology (SAS, SATA, NVMe), and number of drives, OneView creates a policy for the SmartArray controller to look for drives that meet that requested policy.  If there is an existing logical drive that consumes all drives, then you wind up with the error message you have.  Which is why using the Import Existing Logical Drive works for you.

Instead, you can use the "Re-initialize controller on next profile application" setting within the Server Profile Template.  This will clear the controller configuration, including any existing logical drives.  It does not wipe any data present on the drives, just deletes the logical drive(s) settings.

[Theanoe]

@ChrisLynch Good morning,

Thank you for your feedback.
I tested your solution: I therefore checked the “Re-initialize controller on next profile application” box in the Profile Template.
I then assigned a new profile to a blade with ESX installed on it. This time, I did not get the error message that prevented me from creating the profile. However, this action overwrote the data on my disks (my esx).
Here is my Profile Template configuration :

[Theanoe]

Good morning,

Does anyone have another solution for my problem ?