Verifying the RAID Status: "No RAID Array is present in the system"

Products

• Management Center - VA

Issue/Introduction

Customer installs their first Management Center - VA

In the vSphere Center, it can be seen that this system has 3 Hard disks - one for Boot and 2 times 100 GB.

When the customer uses the storage command sets in the CLI, the output returned is shown below. 

portal01(config)# storage view

Storage type disk VG
Storage utilized size: 104.856 GiB
Number partitions used: 1

Also, when the customer tries the raid command - nothing happens. The output returned is "No RAID Array is present in the system"
portal01(config)# show raid …..
portal01(config)#

So, how can the status of the Raid be checked? Or does MC have only one hard disk used?

Environment

Verifying the RAID Status

Resolution

See the snippet below, for the same outcomes, from the MC-VAs in the Symantec environment. These are expected.

Following further internal engagements and verification, we can confirm the following:

• That with Management Center-VA, there is no RAID, by design, and that the RAID is management by the VM host. Only the MC physical appliance comes with RAID.

• That where additional storage space is required, you can increase the size of disk 2 (data disk). Do not add an additional disk. It's not supported on MC-VA. The MC-VA has two disk design, an 8 GB operating system disk, and the data disk.

For guidance on how you can activate extra disk space on an existing MC-VA, please refer to the Tech. Doc. with the URL below.

https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/symantec-security-software/web-and-network-security/management-center/3-3/MC-initial-configuration/active-vm-storage.html

For the Management Center Virtual Machine sizing guidelines, refer to the Tech. Doc. with the URL below.

https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/symantec-security-software/web-and-network-security/management-center/3-3/MC-initial-configuration/KVM-ref-toc/vm_sizing.html