Add new NFS virtual disk storage to Virtual Machine (XenServer)

Posted on June 26, 2014 at 12:22 pm

First you need to create a NFS Virtual Disk Storage via XenCenter.

Then select a VM, open the “Storage” tab in XenCenter, and click the button “Add…”:

add-virtual-disk

Then you should see the virtual disk present in the list of virtual disks:

virtual-disk-added

The virtual disk is now attached and active in the virtual machine.

Connect to the virtual machine via SSH and type:

fdisk -l

And you should identify the recently attached disk /dev/xvdc:

Disk /dev/xvdc: 1073 MB, 1073741824 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 130 cylinders, total 2097152 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
 
Disk /dev/xvdc doesn't contain a valid partition table

If you try to mount the disk /dev/xvdc you will get this error message:

root@127.0.0.1:~# mount /dev/xvdc /mnt -t auto
mount: you must specify the filesystem type

You need to assign the filesystem to the disk, type this command:

mkfs.ext3 /dev/xvdc 2>/dev/null

This is an example output:

Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=4096 (log=2)
Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
Stride=0 blocks, Stripe width=0 blocks
131072 inodes, 524288 blocks
26214 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=0
Maximum filesystem blocks=536870912
16 block groups
32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
8192 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
        32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912
 
Allocating group tables: done
Writing inode tables: done
Creating journal (16384 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done

Now you can finally mount the disk:

root@127.0.0.1:~# mount /dev/xvdc /mnt -t auto
root@127.0.0.1:~#

The new disk is mounted in /mnt path.

Updated on November 19, 2016 at 12:05 pm

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