How to build a raid volume ? about python-redfish-lenovo

[renxulei]

Hi, Mdaguete, thanks for your question.
About your question, Currently there is no redfish commands to support building raid volumes. I am tracking if there is solid plan to provide this capability in future, I will give you update once I got the results.

If you just want to implement building raid volume via network, lenovo provided other ways to support this, like via lenovo BMC's WebGui or command line tool. if you need further help about this, feel free to let me know.

Thanks.

[mdaguete]

Thanks @renxulei, currently I'm using a ssh connection to console to build the raid, but using redfish would be a great improvement.

[samerhaj]

@mdaguete Thank you for the suggestion. Yes this is a great improvement. Unfortunately, the redfish method to do this is not currently supported in the firmware. But once added, we will add a python/powershell example of how to manage the interface to achieve this.

[renxulei]

New firmware supported RAID configuration via Redfish, and added new scripts to support RAID configuration, so close this.
lenovo_create_raid_volume.py
lenovo_delete_raid_volume.py

[mastier]

Hi @renxulei So far I see the request to the Redfish API does not send speicific physical disks
https://github.com/lenovo/python-redfish-lenovo/blob/master/examples/lenovo_create_raid_volume.py#L180-L184
For me it fails with code 500
I got 2x SSD 1TB and 8x8TB HDD on one conttroller and wants to create RAID1

Does the firmware support passing the actual drives ? So I could modify the lenovo-create_raid_volume.py script to pass list of drives in the request body ?
Similarly to iDRAC ? like https://jonamiki.com/2019/04/14/example-redfish-rest-calls-create-raid-volume/
Or it will work only when the list of drives matches the RAIDType ?
By guessing I tried passing drives or disks by guessing but none of them work

Url '/redfish/v1/Systems/1/Storage/RAID_Slot7/Volumes' response Error code 500
error_message: The property Drives is not in the list of valid properties for the resource

Also would be cool if the REST API guide was updated accordingly
also would like to know which firmware version supports it ?
I got mine SR650 updated to the newest firmware on all components
Mine BMC Version: 8.80 CDI3A2Q (09/22/2022)
https://sysmgt.lenovofiles.com/help/topic/com.lenovo.systems.management.xcc.restapi.doc/xcc_restapi_book.pdf