Enable-Clusters2d with bustype raid

Question

Hi everyone!

I have a small issue with a recent order, i have to setup a high availability for virtual machines hosted in 2 physical servers (DELL R6515 with perc H730p, 3x SSD 480gb each)

I tried to use clusters2d solution in HA cluster to avoid additional HW (shared storage etc) but the is i am not able to activate this fonction because the bustype of my disks is RAID.

Non-RAID disk is activated in the BIOS and the controller mode is HBA instead of RAID. Bios and perc firmware are updated.

I tried the regedit solution to accept RAID but this changed nothing in the results. The disk type is still not accepted. Only SAS and NVMe are accepted.

Did you experience the same issue?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Hi，

Are these disks previously part of a RAID? Have you cleared the RAID in the controller before you set the controller mode to HBA?

Answer 2

Hi,

Please see if the PowerShell cmdlet Set-PhysicalDisk works. Open PowerShell and run Get-PhysicalDisk to get the disk friedly names, then run

Set-PhysicalDisk -FriendlyName $YourDiskFriendlyName  -MedoiaType SSD

Hi!

Thank you for your answer.

Actually the media type is already SSD, the BusType is RAID due to PERC H730P raid controller

PS : in this cmd, i am used a 4th disk to compare. 3 SS RAID 5 + 1 Non-Raid

PS C:\Users\Administrateur> Get-PhysicalDisk | Select-Object DeviceID, FriendlyName, MediaType, BusType, Size | Format-Table 

DeviceID FriendlyName         MediaType   BusType         Size 

-------- ------------         ---------   -------         ---- 

1        DELL PERC H730P Mini Unspecified RAID    959119884288 

0        ATA HFS960G3H2X069N  SSD         RAID    960197124096

From Set-PhysicalDisk (Storage) | Microsoft Learn, I see that the BusType cannot be changed (which is normal). I am trying to find a workaround to avoid changing to HBA or add HW shared storage.

PS: My processor AMD EPYC 7313P is not compatible with nested VM solution.

Answer 3

Hi,

Please see if the PowerShell cmdlet Set-PhysicalDisk works. Open PowerShell and run Get-PhysicalDisk to get the disk friedly names, then run

Set-PhysicalDisk -FriendlyName $YourDiskFriendlyName  -MedoiaType SSD