XCP-ng add storage after install

8th May 2026

Adding storage won’t work from the Web WUI

Command prompt

yum install lshw
lshw -class disk -short

xe host-list
    or just get the uuid from the WUI shown just below the host name

xe sr-create content-type=user device-config:device=<device-name ie /dev/sdb> host-uuid=<host-uuid ie 49777777-4c77-4577-8277-2477ff77b177> name-label="Disk-Label"  shared=false type=ext

source Attach physical hard disk to Xen/XCP-ng Server – DEV Community