VX9000 on AWS can't add secondary storage

[Andrew_Webster]

Hi,
Trying to add secondary storage for VX9000 instance on AWS, but it fails:
VX-AWS#service database use-secondary-storage ************************************ WARNING ************************************* ** Execution of this command will configure this device to store the database ** ** files on a secondary drive. This device will reload after execution. ** ** NOTE: Current database files will be erased. ** ************************************************************************************ Are you sure you want to proceed? (y/n): y % Error: No available secondary block device: xvda
The problem is that there is indeed a secondary block storage device attached to the instance, but it shows as sdb in the AWS console.

Is there a way to tell the VX to used sdb and not xvda ?

Thanks!

[Ondrej_Lepa]

Hey Andrew,

Long story short - secondary storage is not supported on AWS as there is a different approach to virtual disks.
This is also reason why you have to "convert" the virtual machine. On ESXi it obviously works

Taken from guide WiNG 5 Installation Guide: VX 9000 – Amazon EC2 Cloud

Regards,
Ondrej

[RobertZ]

Can you tell us the VX900 firmware version?