Re: Failed MSA Controller cannot remove
Hello,If one of the controllers has failed it should be replaced in order to provide redundancy. Otherwise a single controller becomes a single point of failure. However, if you decide to run in single...
View ArticleRe: Updating MSA 2040 drive firmware. (VMware/Vsphere/ESXi hosts).
Hello,You have described the best practice way to update drive firmware for servers attached to an MSA storage array.The one other step you should take is to have a current backup (if possible) and...
View ArticleRe: Updating MSA 2040 drive firmware. (VMware/Vsphere/ESXi hosts).
Thanks. One drive has reported a few errors but MSA says monitor disk only. There are 3 global spares. Veeam backups are every night.
View ArticleRe: Updating MSA 2040 drive firmware. (VMware/Vsphere/ESXi hosts).
Your way of upgrade exactly right.Considering drive errors if there is any drive logging hard error or medium errors then better to replace them before you go for the drive firmware upgrade.I am not...
View ArticleRe: Failed MSA Controller cannot remove
Wow that worked. No reboot either. Issued the command via CLI, refreshed the web page, all green again.I'll move the controller to the top slot and remap once the servers go back into...
View ArticleMSA P2000 G3 Remove a failed controller
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...
View ArticleRe: MSA P2000 G3 Remove a failed controller
Hi Pythagoras,1) Remove the failed controller from the Enclosure.2) Run the balow command from the CLI # set advanced-settings single-controller Thanks &Regards,I am HPE Employee.
View ArticleFeedback to configuration
Hello,I was wondering if you might give use the feedback to our current configuration running and regarding the OS:Meanwhile the Failover Cluster Feature was removed. We are currently running Hyper-V...
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Hello,You have not provided enough inofrmation to determine your full configuration. However, the MSA2012 SAS array was never tested with the DL380 Gen9, D3000 enclosure, Windows 2012 OS, or Storage...
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Dear Shawn,you wrote: "However, the MSA2012 SAS array was never tested with the DL380 Gen9, D3000 enclosure, Windows 2012 OS, or Storage Spaces."I wrote that we use DL380 Gen8 NOT DL380 Gen9!Please...
View ArticleRe: Feedback to configuration
Hello,The only SAS HBA that is supported with the MSA2012 SAS array is the SC08Ge. The SC08Ge is supported in the DL380 G5 and DL380 G6 servers. It is not supported in the DL380 G8, DL380 G9, or the...
View ArticleMSA Capacity report
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.
View ArticleMSA 2050 disable cache flush
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...
View ArticleRe: MSA 2050 disable cache flush
Hi Mike,I guess you are referring to SSD read cache disk group.From SMU guide:Unlike tiering, where a single copy of specific blocks of data resides in either spinning disks or SSDs, the Read...
View ArticleRe: MSA Capacity report
Hi Kingstone,There are no capacity utilization report options available in MSA.You could only generate historical performance statistics report.Details could be found in SMU guide pages...
View ArticleRe: MSA 2050 disable cache flush
I understand your requirement is not to clean the data from SSD cache when power lost.Please note that SSD cache actually nothing but Read Flash Cache (RFC) which is related to read operation which...
View ArticleRe: Feedback to configuration
Dear Shawn,so I am wondering if you might please reply further to plug a brand new configuration of two additional (maybe brand new) HPE ProLiant 380p (or e) Gen9 or Gen10 with Windows 2016 or 2019...
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There is no question of trying to use DL380 G8, DL380 G9 and DL380 G10 as these Servers never tested with MSA2000sa and it will not be in future also.You can check the details from SPOCK as per below...
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Yes, can't we use instead two new HPE ProLiant DL380 (new means Gen 9 or Gen 10) for high availble vm (with Microsoft Windows 2016 Server Cluster Feature installed and Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct...
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