Configuring NVME Cards on Exalytics X6-4 Fails with Error: “Error: starting sector number, 4687499264 exceeds the msdos-partition-table-imposed maximum of 4294967295”

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Update Date:	2017-03-17
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Solution 2243754.1 : Configuring NVME Cards on Exalytics X6-4 Fails with Error: “Error: starting sector number, 4687499264 exceeds the msdos-partition-table-imposed maximum of 4294967295”

Applies to:

Exalytics In-Memory Machine X6-4 - Version All Versions to All Versions [Release All Releases]
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

Configuring an Exalytics x6-4 machine with Release 2.0.0.1.0 and Linux 6. Follow steps in the Installation Guide to create a partition and allocated 3200GB nvme storage. This is described as follows:

Prerequisite: To create partitions on the Flash cards, if there are no existing partitions:

Enter the following command:

# parted /dev/nvme0n1 mklabel msdos
Warning: The existing disk label on /dev/nvme0n1 will be destroyed and all data on this disk will be lost. Do you want to continue?
Yes/No? Yes

Information: You may need to update /etc/fstabm.
Enter the following command:

# parted -a optimal /dev/nvme0n1 mkpart primary 0% 25% mkpart primary 25% 50% mkpart primary 50% 75% mkpart primary 75% 100%

Once the commands are executed, only 3 of the four partitions are created and the following error occurs:

Error: starting sector number, 4687499264 exceeds the msdos-partition-table-imposed maximum of 4294967295

Cause

Cause of this issue has been identified and verified in:

Unpublished <BUG 25611437>, ISSUE RELATED TO EXALYTICS X6-4 3200GB NVME CARDS.

There is an error in the documentation and it will be updated in the installation manual in a future release.

Solution

To resolve this issue follow the steps mentioned in:

Section 3.7.3 Configuring RAID1 for Flash in Oracle VM Server on X5-4 and X6-4 Machines of Fusion Middleware Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine Installation and Administration Guide for Linux

#parted /dev/nvme0n1 mklabel gpt

Then continue with remainder of the steps in the Installation Guide.

Note:- If there are partitions, then need to back them up, as this would wipe out the current existing partitions.

References

<BUG:25611437> - ISSUE RELATED TO EXALYTICS X6-4 3200GB NVME CARDS

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