Hi I recently had an error in our HP SAN MSA1040 where it said one of the disks was degraded.
I purchased a new Segate Enterprise Disk with the correct specs to match that of the origional HP Disks, after replacing the disk, the bottom light is soldi green but the top ligh on the disk case is sold amber.
the disk is not being detected in the SMU and enclouser is showing the bay as empty.
Thanks in advanced!!!
All,
I've got a single D3610 connected to a host via a single SAS cable on DP-1 on Controller 1. Is the a way to connect Controller 2 to my host so that if Controller 1 failed, Controller 2 would take over? Everything I've seen on HPE's docs talks about redudnant paths when using multiple enclosures, but since I have the one, it's not really helping me. Any help or feedback would be appreciated. Thanks!
Can we add/Mix below mentioned RAM in HPE DL380 G9 server. IF yes how to add? A Single socket server with 6 Dual Rank DIMMS (809081-081 HPE 16GB (1 x 16GB) Dual Rank x4 DDR4-2400 CAS-17-17-17 Registered Memory Kit) already installed. We want to add "2 x 16GB rams".
Our available ram option is = " 805349-B21 HPE 16GB 1Rx4 PC4-2400T-R Kit "
Hello,
Do you know how I can configure syslog on a HP P2000 so that I can forward logs to a syslog server?
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Thanks for any replies.
We have a MSA2040 with a RAID6 disk group, that current has 10 Disks, the maximum in the RAID6 group is 15 disk, what happens after that do I need to create a new DiskGroup or will it simply create a new RAID6 group within the existing diskgroup, thereby expanding the existing diskgroup.
We are adding a expansion shelf and would like to ideally, expanded the existing disk group.
This is not a virutal volume but a traditional disk group, however, the firmware of the MSA is the latest and greatest
Hello All,
I am building a 3 node Windows Server 2016 Datacenter Edition Failover cluster using DL380 G10 servers, an MSA 2050 (ISCSI with dual controllers). I have a pair of Aruba 2540 switches for the SAN.
Switch 1 is configured as 192.168.3.3. Switch 2 is configured as 192.168.4.3.
Switch 1 has plugged into it MSA ports A1 (192.168.3.7) and B1 (192.168.3.8), as well as one network interface from each node, 192.168.3.4, 192.168.3.5, and 192.168.3.6.
Switch 2 has plugged into it MSA ports A2 (192.168.4.7) and B2 (192.168.4.8), as well as one network interace from each node, 192.168.4.4, 192.168.4.5, 192.168.4.6.
There is nothing else plugged into these switches, 5 ports total in use per switch.
My issue is that when I ping MSA Controller Ports B1 and A2, from all 3 nodes, I get Destination host unreachable.
Why is this? Does the MSA only respond on the "active" ports?
On the MSA, I have created a storage pool, created 4 volumes (1 witness and 3 CSVs). I have mapped one of the hosts to the volumes.
On the first Node, I have installed MPIO, configured ISCSI initiators, mapped the 4 volumes and they are formatting now.
Thanks,
Vintr
I read in a technical paper that jumbo frames are supported at 8900 bytes.
I have enabled jumbo frames on the MSA, network switches, and the Windows Server 2016 NICs.
However, there is no 8900 option in Windows. I selected 9014 as it seemed to be the best option among 1514, 4088, 9014, and 9336 bytes.
Is 9014 bytes the best option? What issues might I expect to indicate there is a problem?
Thanks,
Vint
Hello Community,
I am a Newbie and hope to get information about configuring the MSA 2052 (2 x 4 port Controllers SAS) for best performance.
I have 2 x 800GB SSD and 5 x 6TB, 7,2k HDD in the MSA. I have 3 Servers with dual out SAS for each Controller of the MSA. All Servers will have Hyper-V Maschines (a total of 12, (4 per Server))
My first intention was to fill the Pool A with Raid10 4 x HDDs & Spare and the 2 SSDs as performance auto tier. But In this configuration the second Controller would be "idle".
So my Question is, for the best performance, schould i configure it like described before, or should i better configure it like this:
Pool A: 1 x SSD for read cache & 2 x HDD Raid 1
Pool B: 1 x SSD for read cache & 2 x HDD Raid 1
1 HDD global spare
Which configuration will be better/faster: 2 x SSD & 4 x HDD Raid 10 using the Auto-Tiering, on 1 Controller
or the one with: 1 x SSD read cache & 2 x HDD Raid 1, same on both Pools, so that both Controllers are working?
I asked the technician of my HPE Dealer, but he is also unsure about that.
Can you please help me?
Thanks in advance
sy2ben
Does anyone know if it is possible to use a 2TB 4Kn HDD Drive in a HP MSA P2000 G3 Storage? If so what do I have to do to make it work it my Storage?
If it is firmware related, Is there a possibility to run a firmware update without restarting the whole storage?
I have a trustworthy P2000 G3 SAN which has had a controller fail. I have no intention of ever replacing it but i cant see anywhere on how to disable it. My intention is to use the SAN until it dies.
Controller B keeps moaning A is missing and showing as degraded.
Anyone know how to tell B to never look for A anymore?
Thanks
web or CLI commands would be great.
I recently updated the controller firmware on an MSA 2040. Tomorrow the drive firmware requires updating..
There are two ESXi hosts (VSphere) connected, by fibre to the MSA.
I know it is important there is no I/O during the update. The plan was to shut down all VM's on the two hosts, then shut down/power-off the hosts, before starting the update.
Is this an adequate way of preapring for the update, is is there a better way or anything else to watch out for?
I have an old faithful P2000 G3 MSA which has a failed controller. There are no plans to replace it so i want to convert a dual controller setup to single controller as its showing as degraded.
I cant see to see anywhere how to tell controller B, that controller A does not exist, and will never return.
Anyone got any ideas? on web or CLI commands?
Thanks
Hi guys, is it possible to have a regular report for my MSA 2050 storage. I am able to get alert notifications, but the client is also requesting capacity utilization reports maybe weekly or monthly.
Hello,
I want to turn off cleaning ssd cache when power is lost. As I understand it, this setting when executing the command: show cache-parameters is displayed as Cache Flush: Enabled. In the CLI reference guide, I did not find this option disabled.
thank advance
Hello guys, i need a little bit of a guidance/best practice. The company I work for has MSA2040 has 2 disk groups, collegue that worked before me made 1 disk group with 12 disk and other one with 4 disks because customer didnt have enough money to buy all disks at once when he did configuration.
Customer purchased the rest of disk few days back, and i want to remake second disk group.
I spent some time reading the refference guide but I just want to make sure Iam on the right track:
When i delete second disk group - data from it will automatically drain to first disk group if there is enough space (vdrain), after that i should just recreate second disk group and add it to pool?
Hi,
I have setup an MSA 2040 SAN storage which has been running well within our production environment. I followed an online guide which I found very usefull. However, that was over a year ago and the system has been working well in production since.
ALthough I have successfully completed the above I am still pretty new to SAN storage and don't get to play around with it as much as I should so excuse me if I use the wrong terminology, etc., etc. I am in search of some guidance.
I initially seutp a Virtual Pool containing 4x600gb sas drives.
I then created two additional Linear pools containing 8x 600gb sas drives each. All three pool can be seen within VMware
I have migrated the servers from the virtual pool over to the linears pools. All good so far.
Now there are also three volumes, these seem to match the three pools mentioned above.
What I am trying to do is delete the VIRTUAL Pool and recreate it with 1.2tb disks.
Would I need to remove the volume group? Or can I just remove the disk group associated with the Virtual Pool?
There is no data on the Virtual pool, i'm 100% confident that the virtual pool is empty.
Will this effect either of the Linear groups?
This enitre environment is running in production. Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
New to SAM, MSA2040, and VMWare....and struggling.
I just added a second storage unit to our MSA2040. It is assembled with 24 900GB drives (as was the first). I have a few questions, and might not be finding the proper terminology so please be patient.
Current: MSA2040 w/ 24 900GB drives, using RAID10 (w/ 2 spares), 2 Volumes on A, 1 Volume on B.
I've added a shelf with another 24 900GB Drives, and would like create 2 very large volumes (for speed; (6) Windows2016Server Operating systems reside on one of the volumes, and CAD files are stored/manipulated on the others).
Can I format the new shelf/drives while my users are up and running on the existing MSA2040 (this is ALL production), and if so can the user impact and length of time to format 10TB be estimated? This is a production system and it could affect 50+ users' productivity.
Plan (nutshelled):
[]Set up a new Volume 004 for Pool A (on dgA02) that is +/- 5TB… called Vol0004.
[]'Migrate’ the data on Vol003 (currently Pool B dgB01) to the (new and empty) Vol0004 (Pool A, dgA02).
[]This leaves an assigned (empty) Vol0003 and unnamed space that has not been committed to a Volume (only RAIDed) on Pool B.
[]remove the empty volume from VMware
[]Delete Vol0003 (or expand it into the ‘un -named’ space on B) and Pool B is now 10TB.
[]Create Vol0005 with 10TB on Pool B (or expand Vol003 @ 10TB) using BOTH dgB01 and dgB02.
[]Migrate all the data on Vol0001, Vol0002, Vol0004 (Pool A) onto the new (now 10TB) Vol0005/Pool B.
[]Remove these from VMware: Vol0001, Vol0002, Vol0003
[]Delete Vol0001, Vol0002, Vol0003, and create a new Vol0005 (using dgA01 and dgA02).
[]Vol0005 (dgAo1, dgA02) is now also 10TB.
[]Migrate some data for load balancing (best guess).