FYI: 24 drives, each 2.4 TB (57.6 TB RAW ) will give you 38.36 TB useable in...
Hopefully someone may find this usefull when sizing their MSA for VMware 8.If you load an MSA 2060 with 24 drives each 2.4TB in size and you create one Disk Group in one Pool and create 1 Volume:If you...
View Articlemsa 2050 net manager port Unable to obtain IP
follow ,it is the msa 2050 error info :# show network-parametersNetwork Parameters Controller A-------------------------------IP Address: 172.168.0.153Gateway: 172.168.0.254Subnet Mask:...
View ArticleMSA 2040 - LEFTOVR - Clear Metadata not working
Hi, one of the newly replaced disk shows Degraded LEFTOVR UNKN. I have gone through the "Clear Metadata" option by selecting the affected disk slot and selecting Yes on "Are you sure you want to clear...
View Article{MSA 2060 FC} "Unable to obtain FRU ID data for this FRU"
We noticed that we have an ILO alarm on the storage. It's using 48V DC PSUThe error was already reported here but the solution is not clear Solved: FRU error won't clear on HPE MSA2062 - Hewlett...
View ArticleWhat to do with an old MSA 2040
It seems kind of a waste to send a fully loaded MSA 2040 to the recyclers and it is too big for a paperweight. What would you do with an old MSA 2040?
View ArticleVolume and Diskgroup relationship?
Hello,I have MSA 2040 with 24 total 600G drives,we would like to upgrade 10 of the drives with 2.4 TBdrives are: HPE MSA Q2R41A 2.4TB 10kRPM 2.5in SAS-12G Enterprise HDDThe first step is to clear the...
View Articleadd disk
Hello,I have MSA 2062 with a 14x1.2 tb disk. Im bought an additional 8x2.6tb.My question is, do I need to add this new disk to another POOL or just add this disk to another disk group in the existing...
View ArticleMSA Gen 5 2052 / Sparing Question
Hi all, I don't deal with MSAs on a daily basis but have to assist with them from time to time. I was helping a customer understand how their MSA capacity was calculated which once explained...
View ArticleMSA 2050 replication issues
Hello-I have two large MSAs that replicate data, one way. The replication runs and completes sucessfully. The problem is that when replication starts, the video server that uses the MSA's storage,...
View Articleexpanded raid on P2000 G3 SAS doesnt show on VMWare
Hello,a client is using a P2000 G3 SAS, which recently got two new drives that expanded a raid 5 volume (by 1.2 TB from 5.4 TB to 6.6 TB). VMWare however doesn't recognize the increased storage size....
View ArticleHPE msa2050 sas problem with connection
Hello,I have an HPE msa 2050 sas on which I have configured a sas connection with 3 hosts. Connections in the host tab showed up automatically. I connected the machines one by one (first the first port...
View ArticleIs it possible to get "MSA-DP+" onto an MSA2050?
Is it possible to get "MSA-DP+" onto an MSA2050?
View ArticleHPE MSA 2050 SAN Storage Stencils
I am looking for the HPE MSA 2050 SAN Storage Stencils.i already explore the VisioCafe.com but not find it.if anybody can provide or guide me to get it.
View ArticleMSA2060 - Basic configuration greyed out / no menu
Hello everyone,I cant configure my MSA2060, everything is greyed out in the configuration page.I just create an user, log in and i got this page : I upgrade the MSA with the exe in Windows but i get...
View ArticleUnable to connect to storage volumes through windows server 2012
3 of our SAS drives got degraded we had to remove the drives and created a RAID 6 disk group with the available 6 drives with 2 volumes. But we are now unable to connect to these volumes through the...
View ArticleReplace disk on hp msa2050
Hi,I have discs Model: EG002400JWJNT configured in raid5 on HPE MSA 2050Unfortunetlly one of this discs Stopped working and i must replace it. I dont have configured spare disc, but i can buy model...
View ArticleUnassociated Disk Group on HPE MSA 2062
Hi Team,On our HPE MSA 2060 first we created one disk group as with two 1.9 TB SSD drivces RAID 1 in pool A.Later added Perfomance tier license and immediately created Disk group in Pool B RAID 10...
View ArticleRestarting MC on MSA 2060
I have a problem accessing GUI on MSA2060, so i am planning to restart the Management Controller on each controller, is there any impact on the MSA especially I/O operations?
View ArticleSystem Configuration Wizard Grey out
I have a brand new MSA 2060 FC and try to set it up.After running the first setup wizard at System configuration, the START is gray-out and cannot proceed.Can you please let me know how to fix this and...
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