Hello,
I have a MSA 2040 SAN with dual controllers. I just put in 4 new drives and wanted to install them.
I tried to create a new Disk Group as RAID-5 but I get the following message:
Here is some additional information from my SAN:
HP MSA Storage MSA 2040 SAN
System Name: MSA 2040
System Location: removed
Version: GL225P002-02
# show disks
Location Serial Number Vendor Rev Description Usage Jobs Speed (kr/min) Size Sec Fmt Disk Group Pool Tier Health
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1.1 S4039XS90000E721AUWZ HP HPD4 SAS VIRTUAL POOL 10 900.1GB 512n dgA01 A Standard OK
1.2 S4039XQS0000E721D84A HP HPD4 SAS VIRTUAL POOL 10 900.1GB 512n dgA01 A Standard OK
1.3 S4039XVV0000E721D87T HP HPD4 SAS VIRTUAL POOL 10 900.1GB 512n dgA01 A Standard OK
1.4 S4039XNN0000E720SHE1 HP HPD4 SAS VIRTUAL POOL 10 900.1GB 512n dgA01 A Standard OK
1.5 S4039XQT0000E721D8HK HP HPD4 SAS VIRTUAL POOL 10 900.1GB 512n dgA01 A Standard OK
1.6 S403B4410000E72175BN HP HPD4 SAS VIRTUAL POOL 10 900.1GB 512n dgA01 A Standard OK
1.7 17L0A0BUFUWB1703 HP HPD4 SAS VIRTUAL POOL 10 900.1GB 512n dgB01 B Standard OK
1.8 2740A07EFUWB1705 HP HPD4 SAS VIRTUAL POOL 10 900.1GB 512n dgB01 B Standard OK
1.9 2740A0J6FUWB1705 HP HPD4 SAS VIRTUAL POOL 10 900.1GB 512n dgB01 B Standard OK
1.10 17L0A0H8FUWB1703 HP HPD4 SAS VIRTUAL POOL 10 900.1GB 512n dgB01 B Standard OK
1.11 2740A0FHFUWB1705 HP HPD4 SAS VIRTUAL POOL 10 900.1GB 512n dgB01 B Standard OK
1.12 2740A08FFUWB1705 HP HPD4 SAS VIRTUAL POOL 10 900.1GB 512n dgB01 B Standard OK
1.13 ZAJ159YX0000822150Z3 SEAGATE C006 SSD SAS VIRTUAL POOL 0 400.0GB 512e rcA1 A Read Cache OK
1.14 ZAJ15A130000822150Z3 SEAGATE C006 SSD SAS VIRTUAL POOL 0 400.0GB 512e rcB1 B Read Cache OK
1.15 WBN3C5V5 HP HPD5 SAS AVAIL 10 1800.3GB 512e N/A OK
1.16 WBN3C544 HP HPD5 SAS AVAIL 10 1800.3GB 512e N/A OK
1.17 WBN3AAKL HP HPD5 SAS AVAIL 10 1800.3GB 512e N/A OK
1.18 WBN3KHRT HP HPD5 SAS AVAIL 10 1800.3GB 512e N/A OK
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Info: * Rates may vary. This is normal behavior. (2020-08-12 13:23:31)
Success: Command completed successfully. (2020-08-12 13:23:31)
# show pools
Name Serial Number Class Total Size Avail Snap Size OverCommit Disk Groups Volumes Low Thresh Mid Thresh High Thresh Sec Fmt Health Reason Action
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A 00c0ff287d6a000073061b5901000000 Virtual 4494.1GB 2111.6GB 0B Enabled 2 3 25.00 % 50.00 % 95.22 % Mixed OK
B 00c0ff28759b0000a8061b5901000000 Virtual 4494.1GB 1911.4GB 0B Enabled 2 2 25.00 % 50.00 % 95.22 % Mixed OK
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Success: Command completed successfully. (2020-08-12 13:23:44)
# show disk-groups
Name Size Free Class Pool Tier % of Pool Own Pref RAID Disks Spr Chk Status Jobs Job% Serial Number Spin Down SD Delay Sec Fmt Health Reason Action
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dgA01 4494.1GB 2111.6GB Virtual A Standard 100 A A RAID5 6 0 64k FTOL 00c0ff287d6a000072061b5900000000 Disabled 0 512n OK
rcA1 397.5GB 33.7GB Virtual A Read Cache 0 A A NRAID 1 0 N/A UP 00c0ff287d6a000086061b5900000000 Disabled 0 512e OK
dgB01 4494.1GB 1911.4GB Virtual B Standard 100 B B RAID5 6 0 64k FTOL 00c0ff28759b0000a5061b5900000000 Disabled 0 512n OK
rcB1 397.5GB 136.7GB Virtual B Read Cache 0 B B NRAID 1 0 N/A UP 00c0ff28759b0000b7061b5900000000 Disabled 0 512e OK
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I have two SSD Read Cahce, one for each controller as you can see in the configuration.
Do I need to buy some license just to install more drives to my SAN? Or am I doing something wrong here?
