Best way to move customer from smaller pools to larger?
Hi Just wanting to confirm my logic for the following plan for an MSA2050Customer has 2x RAID5 3+1 disk groups (one pool a, the other pool b). Customer wants to fully populate array with same 600gb sas...
View ArticleMSA 2040 - Killed partner controller. (reason: Unreliable disk read path...
MSA 2040 SAS with D2700 DAS. All Firmware's are up to date. 3 x ESXi hosts in place.Controller A keeps on failing. and another disk is also reporting issues with a Recovery Error & Meduim errorhere...
View ArticleMSA P2050 warning disk space....
Dear all,I have some questions about the configuration and disk space usage of an MSA P2050 (Fibre Channel) system.This system initially had 8 x 2TB drives. The elements in the system were A disk group...
View ArticleMSA P2050 high latency ....
Dear all,I am writing again to submit this new problem to you.. As you can read from previous post I've got an MSA P2050 (Fibre Channel) system. This system initially had 8 x 2TB drives. The elements...
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How to expand MSA 2040 Volume
Hi,We ahve MSA 2040 with Virtual Pools A & B, I want to expand pool B, I already created new DataGroup now to expand the volume of pool B, when I choose modify volume, i am not sure what to enter...
View ArticleQuestion regarding small SSD only disk pool on MSA 2062
Hi,We currently have a MSA2062 with 12 SAS disks in a MSA-DP+ array and 2 SSD's as read cache in Pool A.We'd like to have a (small) SSD only, RAID 1, disk pool for our RDS hosts in a secondary pool...
View ArticleHPE MSA 1060 : Proxmox 7.1, iSCSI, chap and problems
Hello everyone!I encounter problem with setting iscsi and chap on my proxmox server.I had a disk bay HPE MSA1060 where a set a record for chap authentication:initiatorname : the iqn find on the proxmox...
View ArticleRecovery on MSA2000 storage with multiple disks failed
Hi, I am trying to recover as much data as possible from MSA2000 storage, which suffered a power issue, this is my situation (single VDISK with 11 disks, raid5) # show vdisk Name Size Free Pref Owner...
View ArticleMSA 2060 virtual pool running out of available space doing nothing
Hi everyone!I have 2 virtual pool in my system. In one of then, dedicated to video recordings, I am running out of space and I dont know why.My virtualization system is VMWare 7 and my datastorage...
View ArticleBest Practice Blocksize Windows Server on a virtual Server (Vsphere8) on MSA2062
Hi, on a new installation vSphere 8 on a MSA2062 (SAS, Raid6,), what blocksize (in Windows Server OS) will be the best with a virtuall server MS server 2019 /2022?I do not found any information in the...
View ArticleToday's Best Practice to Setup 2 Hyper-V Host Servers and MSA
Hi,I'm looking to refesh my current servers and MSA with two new HPE DL380 servers and MSA 2062 (Dual Controller).Details:VMs (Total of 10) will be stored on the MSA running SSD drives15TB of Data will...
View ArticleMSA 2060 INVALID BUNDLE
Hello everyone our company has recently purchased a MSA 2060 and we are facing these warnings on the controllers :Invalid Bundle (IN110P001)and The bundle install is incompleteas mentioned in a...
View ArticleMSA 2040 Factory Reset Serial Number Login incrorret problem
HelloI have a password forgotten MSA 2040 Storage.normally i try to reset device with "factorydefaults" command and serial number. But I am getting login failed error on Console screen.What could be...
View ArticleMSA 2050 - Unbale to change IP address of controller A & B via Management...
We are using reclaimed stock from another project, the MSA currently has IP addresses manually assigned and we want to change these to a new vlan but when connected to either controller and typing in...
View ArticleExpanding storage on MSA 2060 FC
I've inherited management of an HPE MSA 2060 FC and need to expand the storage. The current setup is 2 Pools (A & B), both pools have a single Disk Group in RAID5 with 3 physical disks, so 6...
View ArticleThe system has used over 95% of the raw physical space.
I am getting the subject mentioned alert, my storage is 97% full. I have checked , there are so many screenshots have been created and its not allowing me to delete the snapshots to reclaim the space....
View ArticleHP MSA SAN opinions ?
All,I am planning to purchase either the HP MSA 2040 or 2050. I wanted to see if the community had any feedback about these devices.I wanted a device that is better than Synology but more cost...
View ArticleHPE MSA disk quarantine
hello,I have a critcal problem, all my disk groupe are in quarantine, i have tried to dequarantine disk groups but they give me this error :Error: " The requested operation cannot be completed because...
View ArticleHPE MSA 2060 FC adding new diska
hi. asking maybe a noob question. recently we bought several disks for msa array to expand its storage because it had 4 free slots. Now im worrying about putting those disks into array. i tried to find...
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MSA2040 - use all space ?
Hello,is it ok to use up all available space for a volume or is it better to leave some pool space uncommittit ?
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