Dear Sir or Madam,
I was wondering if I might get here some feedback in adavance, because serial number not at hand yet.
Planning to adopt a HPE MSA 2040 LFF storage enclosure to two HPE ProLiant DL380 Servers as a shared storage or LUN for Microsoft Windows 2012 R2 Hyper-V virtual maschine disks.
Therefore we have purchased one HPE MSA 2040 LFF and three HPE 3 TB HDD SAS LFF and one additional controllers HPE 421 for each HPE ProLiant DL380. Plus additional SAS cable which fits into enclosure and controller.
My questions yet:
- Will the shared storage volume be configured (raid) by web interface?
- We need at least 3 TB usable space for the existing virtual disks. Therefore I am planning to make one RAID5-volumen with the three 3 TB SAS HDD. If further HDD comes into the enclosure, then they will be a seperate volumen, right? A existing volumen can not be modified without data loss, right?
- Will the volumen be recognizec by the (HPE ProLiant DL380) controllers as (additional to the OS logial drive by the on-board-controller) logical drive which can be used as a additional disk volumen by the operating system (Windows 2012 R2 Server Hyper-V) for moving the existing virtual maschine disks on and use them from the shared storage?
- Further going to add the cluster feature to each OS (Windows 2012 R2 Server) at each HPE ProLiant DL 380 to use one NIC for hardbeat. Are there further thinks to have a eye on when building a cluster instead of working with to nodes? At the moment we have two Hyper-V nodes and replicate the virtual maschines between node1 and node2. With the MSA 2040 we will going to build a cluster out of those two existing nodes. Never did this before, so I would appreciate to get some additional information to this configuration by HPE in this forum or by phone, when telling the serial number of the MSA, ProLiants, additional controllers, SAS storage and cables. Seems that no part is missing yet, to do so. Please give professional HPE feedback in adavance. This would help and would be greate.
best regards,
DL