Query: New-HPESALogicalDrive multiple logical drives within single RAID5 set

[Todd Lauder]

Hi all,

I'm trying to create multiple logical drives within one RAID5 set using the PowerShell HPE SmartArray cmdlets. Doing this in the GUI is easy, but I'm struggling with the automation. It will create the first logical drive and then overwrite it with the second logical drive. Is there any way to create multiple logical drives in one RAID5 set? See code below.

Code:

$Servers= "Server1.domain.local"
$Credential=Get-Credential
ForEach ($Server in $Servers)
{
$SAConnection= Connect-HPESA -IP $Server -Credential $Credential -DisableCertificateAuthentication
$iLOConnection= Connect-HPEiLO -IP $Server -Credential $Credential -DisableCertificateAuthentication
Start-Sleep -s 60
$HostPower= Get-HPEiLoServerPower -Connection $iLOConnection
If ($HostPower.Power -eq "Off")
{
Set-HPEiLoServerPower -Connection $iLOConnection -Power on
}
Else
{
Reset-HPEiLO -Connection $iLOConnection -Device Server -Confirm:$false
}
Start-Sleep -s 60
$ControllerConfiguration= Get-HPESAConfigurationStatus -Connection $SAConnection
$SlotNumber= $ControllerConfiguration.ConfigurationStatus.ControllerLocation
$LogicalDrive= Get-HPESALogicalDrive -Connection $SAConnection
$RemoveLogicalDrives= $LogicalDrive.LogicalDrive.VolumeUniqueIdentifier
ForEach ($RemoveLogicalDrive in $RemoveLogicalDrives)
{
Remove-HPESALogicalDrive -Connection $SAConnection -ControllerLocation $SlotNumber -VolumeUniqueIdentifier $RemoveLogicalDrive
}
Start-Sleep -s 60
$HostPower= Get-HPEiLoServerPower -Connection $iLOConnection
If ($HostPower.Power -eq "Off")
{
Set-HPEiLoServerPower -Connection $iLOConnection -Power on
}
Else
{
Reset-HPEiLO -Connection $iLOConnection -Device Server -Confirm:$false
}
Start-Sleep -s 30
$PhysicalDrives= Get-HPESAPhysicalDrive -Connection $SAConnection -ControllerLocation $SlotNumber
$PhysicalDrivesSorted= $PhysicalDrives.PhysicalDrive.Location | Sort-Object
$Drive0= $PhysicalDrivesSorted[0]
$Drive1= $PhysicalDrivesSorted[1]
$Drive2= $PhysicalDrivesSorted[2]
$Drive3= $PhysicalDrivesSorted[3]
New-HPESALogicalDrive -Connection $SAConnection -ControllerLocation $SlotNumber -LogicalDriveName LogicalDrive1 -Raid Raid5 -DataDrive @(,@("$Drive0","$Drive1","$Drive2","$Drive3")) -CapacityGiB 150
Start-Sleep -s 30
Set-HPEiLoServerPower -Connection $iLOConnection -Power Off
Start-Sleep -s 30
Set-HPEiLoServerPower -Connection $iLOConnection -Power On
Start-Sleep -s 120
New-HPESALogicalDrive -Connection $SAConnection -ControllerLocation $SlotNumber -LogicalDriveName LogicalDrive2 -Raid Raid5 -DataDrive @(,@("$Drive0","$Drive1","$Drive2","$Drive3")) -CapacityGiB -1
Start-Sleep -s 30
Set-HPEiLoServerPower -Connection $iLOConnection -Power Off
Start-Sleep -s 60
$HostPower= Get-HPEiLoServerPower -Connection $iLOConnection
If ($HostPower.Power -eq "Off")
{
Set-HPEiLoServerPower -Connection $iLOConnection -Power on
}
Else
{
Reset-HPEiLO -Connection $iLOConnection -Device Server -Confirm:$false
}
Disconnect-HPEiLO -Connection $iLOConnection
Disconnect-HPESA -Connection $SAConnection
}

Thanks,
Todd

[support_s]

System recommended content:

1. HPE XP Storage RAID Manager Reference Guide (01.67.01)

2. HPE XP Storage RAID Manager Installation and Configuration User Guide (1.67.00)

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[Todd Lauder]

Hello - thank you for your response, but is on a Gen10 server, not XP storage device.

[BPSingh]

Greetings!

It looks like New-HPESALogicalDrive is designed to create the initial OS logical drive. It will accept multiple objects to enable multiple Logical drives to be created on multiple iLO destinations, but not multiple drives to a single iLO destination.  The limitation is iLO REST will only accept a single Logical Drive creation operation at a time and purely for the purpose of creating the initial OS drive.

Having said that, I would advise you to log a support ticket so that this scenario of creating multiple logical drives can be tested further in the lab.