XenServer increase vm-disk error

Question

We have currently the XenServer Version 6.2 with SP1 and the updates to XS62ESP1014.

If we tried to increase one of our vm disks, then there is an error:

[root@xenserver-xx ~]# xe vdi-resize uuid=5101f789-78c2-44e1-9a06-7fe7794dd98e disk-size=100GiB
Error code: SR_BACKEND_FAILURE_110
Error parameters: , VDI resize failed [opterr=Command ['/usr/sbin/lvcreate', '-n', 'inflate_5101f789-78c2-44e1-9a06-7fe7794dd98e_53800337408', '-L', '4', 'VG_XenStorage-81d9f03d-b7fc-80f3-240e-9f6a172059c7', '--addtag', 'journaler', '--inactive', '--zero=n'] failed (3): /usr/sbin/lvcreate: unrecognized option `--inactive'
  Error during parsing of command line.],

The lvcreate version:

[root@xenserver-xx ~]# lvcreate --version
  LVM version:     2.02.88(2)-RHEL5 (2014-04-04)
  Library version: 1.02.67-RHEL5 (2011-10-14)
  Driver version:  4.15.0

The redhat version:

[root@xenserver-xx ~]# more /etc/redhat-release
CentOS release 5.11 (Final)

Does sombody know somthing about this error or have somebody the some problem? Is there a way to fix this?

The problem is also there, then we create a new vm disc and try the increase the disc immediately.

Answer 1

I've got a solution:

The Probelm was that XenServer needs a special version of lvm.

LVM version:     2.02.88(2)-RHEL5 (2014-04-04)
Library version: 1.02.67-RHEL5 (2011-10-14)
Driver version:  4.15.0

In this case lvcreate is a symbolic lik to lvm and the newer version has other arguments to increase one of the vm disks.

My workaround is that I copied the old version from an other XenServer to this XenServer and exchange the lvcreate link.

copy lvm__2_02_84_2 into /usr/sbin/
cp /usr/sbin/
chmod 555 lvm__2_02_84_2
ls -lah lv*    # check if lvm and lvm__2_02_84_2 are not different (rights)
mv lvcreate lvcreate_<date>_bak     # <date> e.g. 2014-12-02  # backup the old link
ln -s lvm__2_02_84_2 lvcreate       # create the new link
ls -lah lv*    # check again

Perhaps it's better to exchange the hole lvm:

copy lvm__2_02_84_2 into /usr/sbin/
cp /usr/sbin/
chmod 555 lvm__2_02_84_2
ls -lah lv*    # check if lvm and lvm__2_02_84_2 are not different (rights)
mv lvm lvm_<date>_bak     # <date> e.g. 2014-12-02  # backup the old link
mv lvm__2_02_84_2 lvm     # create the new link
ls -lah lv*    # check again

Answer 2

I believe you are missing some hotfixes. You can try to run rpm -qa| grep lvm2 If your RPM name doesn't have 'xs' string, then definately there is some lvm2 related update is missing.

e.g.

[root@xenserver~]# rpm -qa | grep lvm lvm2-2.02.88-12.xs1420