my doubt is that by executing the Get-PhysicalDisk command, it lists 4 disks but when I run the execution process it only lists 1, can you help me?

Hello Luis Antonio Orellana Barre , Welcome to the Microsoft Q&A and thank you for posting your questions here. Problem Sequel to your questions, I understand that you are having discrepancy in disk count during execution of Invoke-AzStackHciHardwareValidation in Azure Stack HCI. When running the Invoke-AzStackHciHardwareValidation command, which validates hardware in an Azure Stack HCI environment, only one disk is listed during execution despite the Get-PhysicalDisk command showing 4 disks. This are the questions I might like to ask for further verification, kindly provide answer to the below: Is there a specific error message or output provided during the execution process? Are all disks properly recognised and configured within the Azure Stack HCI environment? Is there any additional information available regarding the disk configuration or hardware validation process? Temporary Solution Based on your question and what I saw from your screenshot image. The probabilities are you're having one physical disk with virtual disks. Either 1 Physical disk and 3 volume disks(partitions) or 2 Physical disks with 2 Virtual disks, and only 1 physical disk that's accessible during execution. Reasons, while observing your disks 0 and 1 are of the same name and size, if they are different, that's improper disk naming. Also, your disks 2 and 3 are of the same name and size, if they are different, that's improper disk naming. The serialNumber of the disks might be different though almost similar, virtual machine can do that. Finally This issue requires a thorough analysis of disk configuration, validation process, and any potential errors or misconfigurations to ensure accurate hardware validation in the Azure Stack HCI environment. You can provide more error report for further analysis, since your execution report is not reflecting here. References Read more about storage space by the right side of this page Documentation. Storage Spaces Direct troubleshooting Learn how to troubleshoot your Storage Spaces Direct deployment by confirming the make and model of your SSD, inspecting for faulty drives....... I hope this is helpful! Do not hesitate to let me know if you have any other questions. Please remember to "Accept Answer" if answer helped, so that others in the community facing similar issues can easily find the solution. Best Regards, Sina Salam

Good afternoon, I have finally been able to solve it, but I don't know if it will work in productive environments. The first thing is to thank the people who have answered. What I do in environments that have raid is to mount the windows on the raid disk, when I install the windows to select where I will install it what I do is create me a 500 gb disk of one of the disks that are configured as NORAID install the windows and validate as the internal disks of the server are not in RAID validates it.

azure stack hci Invoke-AzStackHciHardwareValidation -Verbose fail volume instance count

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Sina Salam 6,581 Reputation points

2024-04-03T13:30:36.97+00:00
Hello Luis Antonio Orellana Barre,

Welcome to the Microsoft Q&A and thank you for posting your questions here.

Problem

Sequel to your questions, I understand that you are having discrepancy in disk count during execution of Invoke-AzStackHciHardwareValidation in Azure Stack HCI. When running the Invoke-AzStackHciHardwareValidation command, which validates hardware in an Azure Stack HCI environment, only one disk is listed during execution despite the Get-PhysicalDisk command showing 4 disks.

This are the questions I might like to ask for further verification, kindly provide answer to the below:

Is there a specific error message or output provided during the execution process?

Are all disks properly recognised and configured within the Azure Stack HCI environment?

Is there any additional information available regarding the disk configuration or hardware validation process?

Temporary Solution

Based on your question and what I saw from your screenshot image. The probabilities are you're having one physical disk with virtual disks. Either 1 Physical disk and 3 volume disks(partitions) or 2 Physical disks with 2 Virtual disks, and only 1 physical disk that's accessible during execution.

Reasons, while observing your disks 0 and 1 are of the same name and size, if they are different, that's improper disk naming. Also, your disks 2 and 3 are of the same name and size, if they are different, that's improper disk naming. The serialNumber of the disks might be different though almost similar, virtual machine can do that.

Finally

This issue requires a thorough analysis of disk configuration, validation process, and any potential errors or misconfigurations to ensure accurate hardware validation in the Azure Stack HCI environment.

You can provide more error report for further analysis, since your execution report is not reflecting here.

References

Read more about storage space by the right side of this page Documentation.

Storage Spaces Direct troubleshooting Learn how to troubleshoot your Storage Spaces Direct deployment by confirming the make and model of your SSD, inspecting for faulty drives.......

I hope this is helpful! Do not hesitate to let me know if you have any other questions.

Please remember to "Accept Answer" if answer helped, so that others in the community facing similar issues can easily find the solution.

Best Regards,

Sina Salam
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Luis Antonio Orellana Barre 20 Reputation points

2024-04-03T14:30:49.4866667+00:00

hello Sina thank you very much for your reply.

The server is a dell PowerEdge R7525 dell factory is with a disk of 1.92 Tb and configured a Raid from the bios I have removed the Raid and I have added another disk of 1.92 Tb .

In the azure stack information asks me for two 500 gb disks can you tell me if I have to reconfigure the disks from the bios and reinstall the core.

Sina Salam 6,581 Reputation points

2024-04-03T14:50:33.51+00:00

Hi,

Thanks for your feedback and another question.

Based on your scenario, since you have replaced the RAID configuration on your Dell PowerEdge R7525 server with a single 1.92TB disk. Additionally, you have added another 1.92TB disk. However, Azure Stack requires two 500GB disks.

To meet the requirements of Azure Stack, you'll need to reconfigure your disks to create two separate logical volumes, each with a capacity of 500GB. This can typically be done through the RAID configuration utility in the BIOS. You'll want to set up two separate RAID configurations, one for each 500GB volume.

Once you've configured the disks accordingly, you may need to reinstall the core components of Azure Stack to ensure compatibility and proper functioning. Be sure to follow any guidelines or instructions provided by Azure Stack documentation or support to ensure a successful installation.

Remember to back up any important data before making significant changes to your disk configuration to avoid data loss.

Regards,

Sina

Luis Antonio Orellana Barre 20 Reputation points

2024-04-05T08:21:14.2766667+00:00

Thank you very much for the information, another question I have is that the server is configured Raid to the internal disks where windows is installed, when I say remove all raid is to remove them all.

Sina Salam 6,581 Reputation points

2024-04-05T16:16:46.7633333+00:00

Hi Luis Antonio Orellana Barre , Thank you for your feedback and more questions. Why do you want to remove the OS disk? Remove them all will remove all disks. Be careful in doing that to avoid Disk blank issue, everything will be removed if you launch a command to remove all.
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