Hello,
I have a MSA P2000 G3 SAS, a disk dead today.
The disk is a SAS 600gb 6G dual port 15k rpm (spare code 601777-001 ) , unfortunately the warranty expired 10 days ago, so I canno call HPE.
I have a spare disk, a SAS 600gb 12G dual port 15k rpm (spare code 787656-001), according to you this disk can fit on the MSA ?
Regards.
Hi All,
Got an old HP MSA2000 that acts as a Veeam backup repository. It failed 2 HDDs last night, and since I didn't have any 146GB HDDs, I made a plan with 2 x 300GB HDDs and designated them as global hot spares.
The vdisk rebuild has been going on for about 8 hours now and still shows 0%. This is surely not right...anyone else had this, or can you perhaps suggest how I can get this moved along? It is my least favourite storage as I've only ever had issues with them, but for now it's all we have for backups.
Thanks!
hi i created 3 disk group for auto tiering Pool. one of nlSAS hard faiel due unkown resason. sadly i hadent spare disk i Replaced a Failed Disk but the disk could join the group and hard led is turned off . what should i do
Hi Support,
I want to RAID configuration best option in HP SAN MSA 2312I. Can you share the your best recommandation and guide
As customer is having below SAN storage specification as per their requirement and they need to add SSD tier for SAP in the same box. Can we get SAP hana certification of MSA 2050/2052 for this particular SAN box. You are requested to please confirm ASAP as customer is looking for different solutions against their SAP hana certification requirement.
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Q1J01A
HPE MSA 2050 SAN Dual Controller SFF Storage
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J9F49A
HPE MSA 1.8TB 12G SAS 10K SFF (2.5in) 512e Enterprise 3yr Warranty Hard Drive
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J9F49A 0D1
Factory Integrated
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HPE MSA 800GB 12G SAS Mixed Use SFF (2.5in) 3yr Warranty Solid State Drive
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Factory Integrated
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C8R24B
HPE MSA 16Gb Short Wave Fibre Channel SFP+ 4-pack Transceiver
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C8R24B 0D1
Factory Integrated
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K2Q16A
HP StoreFabric SN6010C 12-port 16Gb Fibre Channel Switch
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K2Q16A 05Y
2.4m Jumper (IEC320 C13/C14 M/F CEE 22)
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Q0H99AAE
HPE MSA Advanced Data Services Suite E-LTU
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HP StoreFabric C-series 16 Gb Fibre Channel SW SFP+ Transceiver
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HPE Premier Flex LC/LC Multi-mode OM4 2 fiber 15m Cable
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HPE 3Y Proactive Care 24x7 SVC
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H1K92A3 RC0
HPE MSA 2050 Storage Support
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HPE SN6010C 12-port 16Gb FC Switch Supp
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Regards,
Raheel
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Hi
We have an iSCSI P2040 with three hosts directly attached to the MSA. Each host has 2 x 10Gbe NICs which are cabled to the storage with one NIC attached to each controller. I'm using linear disks for ths configuration
This leaves us with 2 available ports (1 per controller) on the MSA which I want to use for replication - would this work if I just connect these to the equivalent ports on the other array? Or does the array expect to be able to communciate down all the iSCSI ports?
I've read that remote snap uses the controller management ports for the initial setup and communication with the partner array and then sends replication over the controller ports (in out case iSCSI). So I'm uncertain if it just uses any port(s) over which it can establishe a connection to the other array or it it needs to send the replicated data using specific host ports.
As there are no network switches involved here will I also need to map all the volumes I wish to replicate to the 2 ports that will be used as replication ports?
thanks in advance
C
Good Morning,
I am sure I have missed out, probably a simple step in setup ofour new 2050.
We have noticed that on the port traffics that only 1 port is being used, which is Port A1. This is the port that we initially connect to via our Hyper V iSCSI initiator, within the discovered portals within Hyper V the other ports are listed so it can see them? However there has never been any traffic across these.
Our setup is 3 Hosts, connected via 10GB DAC to 2 switches across its own VLAN to the 2050.
Is there anything you can suggest that we look at to get the best performance from this regarding the iSCSI ports on the 2050?
Regards
Matt
Hi.
I wonder if someone have knowledge about new sata hard drives working with this MSA. I read specifications of cos, but... For example 3tb drives? WD Gold sata or seagate? Had someone tested configuration like that?
Hi,
Im getting myself into a muddle with old skool iSCSI. I have Server 2016 datacentre installed on 3x DL380 G8's.
I have 4x NIC's cross patched into 2x dedicated switches.
MSA has 2x 4 port controllers. What im getting confused on is the iscsi sessions, do i setup sessions to all 8x ports from each host?
The target address is the address assigned to A1 and i have all 3x nodes mapped to all ports.
I am only using 2x subnets\switches as follows. Should i use 4x subnets as i have 4x NIC's in each host? switches are not connected to each other.
A1 172.16.1.1 switch a
A2 172.16.2.1 switch a
A3 172.16.1.2 b
A4 172.16.2.2 b
B1 172.16.1.3 a
B2 172.16.2.3 a
B3 172.16.1.4 b
B4 172.16.2.4 b
With the following connections
New-IscsiTargetPortal -TargetPortalAddress "172.16.1.1" -InitiatorPortalAddress "172.16.1.11" -InitiatorInstanceName "ROOT\ISCSIPRT\0000_0"
Get-IscsiTarget | Connect-IscsiTarget -InitiatorPortalAddress 172.16.1.11 -IsMultipathEnabled $true -IsPersistent $true -TargetPortalAddress 172.16.1.1
Get-IscsiTarget | Connect-IscsiTarget -InitiatorPortalAddress 172.16.2.12 -IsMultipathEnabled $true -IsPersistent $true -TargetPortalAddress 172.16.2.2
Get-IscsiTarget | Connect-IscsiTarget -InitiatorPortalAddress 172.16.1.11 -IsMultipathEnabled $true -IsPersistent $true -TargetPortalAddress 172.16.1.3
Get-IscsiTarget | Connect-IscsiTarget -InitiatorPortalAddress 172.16.2.12 -IsMultipathEnabled $true -IsPersistent $true -TargetPortalAddress 172.16.2.4
This was how i originally connected each host, but throughput is low.
Should i connect every iSCSI sessions to every port on the MSA? A1 through to B4
Reason for question is im struggling to get 4GB through to the SAN, am i overloading it on sessions? The data connections on the host are 10GB and receiving data from a Storage Spaces Direct cluster, so i can easily hit 4GB over the iSCSI and thats what i want to see. At the moment i can hit 900mbit then as i add the above sessions it seems to half it each time. There isnt much documentation about anymore on this.
My firmware is TS251. Im extremely warey to upgrade firmware as a previous attempt killed a controller.
My last question is in 2016 DC, is the best practise still iSCSI\MPIO or should i use SET switch? Reason i ask is im using SET switch for converged production traffic, replica, backup, cluster etc
Thanks
Please help
In an MSA array,
If a read request comes to controller A to read the Volume owned by the peer controller or controller B,
How does the read request will be preocessed.?
Will controller A will tresspass and read the data..? or it will forward the request to controller B..?
Thanks in Adavance.
How do I configure Alerting on P2000 SAN to use a FQDN "cloud"name rather than an IP Address
e.g. "smtp.cloudname.com"
Thanks
Hi all!
I had a MSA 2040 with 12 disks. I created a pool with 11-disks group, type was virtual pool. Now, i buy some new disks, same information, same type, same size ...
As i read from HP MSA guide, i create new disk group (6 disks). Everything seem to be fine, data was expanded (or moved, or copied .. i'm not sure) to a new disk group and release free space on old disk group. But after someday, the free space of NEW disk group are only 2%.
Anyone can explain to me: is it safe or i need to do something?
Thank you
Wondering if anyone else has experienced this or know why this is happening. Have 3 volumes created from a single 22 TB pool used for my hyper-v environment. 1 volume is used for the quorum which is set to 1G, second volume is set to 17TB and is used for cluster shared volume and last 4TB volume is used as a snap pool. The quotum is a master volume, and I've repeatedly set the 17TB volume to be a master volume using the snap pool that is setup. Everything works fine until I run a backup and once the backups are completed, the 17 TB volume reverts back to a standard volume.
Can't seem to figure out why. Any help and/or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Storage: MSA2052
We want to use load balancing of both controllers, and mount only one volume.
We have 10xSAS Disk 10k and 4 SSD Disks
We created 2 x VDiskpool with 5 discs each in Raid 5, and placed them on pool A.
Do we have now load balancing over both controllers?
With this config I can create 1 volume over both disk groups.
As soon as I put the disk pools on A and B, I no longer have the option to put 1 volume over both disk pools!
We also want to use the SSDs explicit for special virtual maschines, i would place this SSDs on Pool B and mount this to a volume, without using autotiering.
thanks for answers
Hi,
I have a MSA 2040 running with dual controller. I can see that I have 10.9 TB space of which 7.9 TB has been provisioned, 1.1 TB free space(I believe spare HDD) and 1.8TB Reserved Space.(Refer attached image).
Well, my question now is whether can I use that reserved space to expand the existing volume?
I tried by right clicking the existing volume - tools - expand volume but I am getting only 1063 GB.
Is it taking from 1.1TB free space or from 1.8 TB reserved space?
Can someone explain about all those storage spaces?
PS RAID5 configured
On www.hpe.com/storage/MSADriveFirmware you can find the latest firmware version for MSA drives.
We have just updated this matrix removing some columns that are not needed. You may also notice a superscript on some firmware version strings. The superscript marks firmware versions that are the initial release and not available for download from the HPE Support Center, www.hpe.com/support/hpesc
The best way to find the latest drive firmware flash component on the HPE Support Center (once there) is to search for "MSA" and the model number of the drive. For example search on "MSA MM1000FBFVR". Looking through the result set you will find the latest firmware flash smart component for this model number.
Stay tuned, we are working to improve locating the lastest MSA drive firmware versions.
Cheers!
/Kipp
I've a new MSA2052 with 2 MU SSD 800GB that comes with the storage. I purchase 7 more MU SSD 800GB and 21 SAS .8TB SFF drives . What's the best practice of the disk placement of the slot? I'm wondering what's the best configuration that could give the best performance out of these hard drives.
Hi
Having used various block device storage appliances from the entry- to mid-tier level from other vendors reading about the disk drive firmware update I was unpleasantly surprised by the statement that a drive firmware update required to be done offline i.e. to have no I/O whatsoever on a used drive.
I'm a bit surprised that a system coming with two redundant controllers couldn't - really ? - not update the drive firmware online. I don't expect replacement drives to be at the same firmware level of the rest of the remaining drives and as such it would be best to get all drives to the same firmware level. How are you doing your MSA updates?
Currently having the storage MSA 2040 with 10 disks (5 disks for A and 5 disks for B) configured on RAID 6. I recently bought 10 more disks to expand the storage. Anyone with a step by step solution that wont delete the already stored data. the disks are of the same specs. I'm new on the HP storage.
Hello,
could you help me with following question: our MSA 2040 (GL220P009) works with host-port-mode FC (all 4 ports are FC) and we have host connected to 1st interface. We need to connect iSCSI host to MSA so we plan to change host-port-mode to FC-and-iSCSI using "set host-port-mode FC-and-iSCSI" command. As for documentation 1st port will remain FC after this command but the question is - if other configurations (volume mappings and so on) remain? Will we need any reconfiguration after controllers' reboot to FC-and-iSCSI host-port-mode? What other problems with existing mappings, hosts are possible?
Thanks in advance for information and help.