HPE MSA 2052 remote replication
Hello,I am a newbie to replication technolgies with HPE MSA 2052s. We are replacing 2 * P2000 arrays in remote geographical locations linked over a WAN connection. I am testing this set up at present...
View ArticleRe: MSA 2052 advice voor Hyper-v 2016 cluster
1st of all I want to correct few terminology otherwise it will create confusion for others who all are following your forum.You have mentioned"There are 4x disk pools:- Controller A: 4xSSD RAID10 en...
View ArticleRe: HP MSA 2040 Seperating VMDK storage from NSA (iSCSI) storage
Hi,MSA is a block level device, thus it is assigning block to a VMDK filesystem or being used as ISCSI direct storage.Therefore , from MSA perspective , you can use them either way.Having one pool...
View ArticleRe: MSA 2050 Change Pool Settings - Overcommit Flag cannot be disabled
You already have 3 drives at location 1.2, 1.17 and 1.18. Out of them you need to just replace 1.2 as that one failed.Then you need another 11 drives of 600 Gb each. so that you can create Virtual...
View ArticleRe: MSA 2040 - extending Volume used as datastore in ESXi 6.7
If you talk about compatibility then ofcourse MSA2040 not compatible with ESX6.7 because HPE not yet tested this. So any behavior is unpredictable and there is no official support from HPE with this...
View ArticleRe: HPE MSA 2052 remote replication
Do I want to choose Discard or Queue Latest? (Queue latest seems to be the default).Ans: It's purely your call. When any new replication request comes and already one replication going on that time you...
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Create 2 volume msa 2050
hi guysi have msa 2050 i connected 2 port to my server as backup and redundant,when i create volume and map it to injector in my windows server i see 2 voulme created.one online and one offline.so...
View ArticleRe: HPE MSA 2052 remote replication
Many Thanks for all your replies. Has put my mind at rest for this work.On the last question. Just a bit concerend as I am currently testing with the 2 MSAs replicating on local area network with only...
View ArticleRe: HPE MSA 2052 remote replication
I would suggest you to follow the below guide and refer section "Network requirements" (Page 14 onwards)https://h20195.www2.hpe.com/v2/getpdf.aspx/4aa1-0977enw.pdfThis will help you for sure.Also...
View ArticleRe: Create 2 volume msa 2050
If you have created two volumes in MSA and presented it to one Server. Then I would suggest you to check in MSA what LUN ID you have used for those two volumes in MSA.In windows "Disk Management" you...
View ArticleRe: Disk Performance - VMWARE 6.7, MSA2040 SAS and software iSCSI
.....Checked your query and test output but this is done at the VM level with the help of Diskspd tool which is Microsoft specific. This forum is exclusively for MSA queries and you need to check...
View ArticleRe: Disk Performance - VMWARE 6.7, MSA2040 SAS and software iSCSI
Hi SubhajitVery kind of you to respond. The issue is this - I don't know if I have a performance issue - the MSA is not in production yet and I'm simply stress testing it myself.However you have seen...
View ArticleRe: Create 2 volume msa 2050
Hello,On your windows server make sure that MPIO is configured correctly and then rescan the discovered devices.Cheers,ShawnI work for Hewlett Packard Enterprise. The comments in this post are my own...
View ArticleRe: Disk Performance - VMWARE 6.7, MSA2040 SAS and software iSCSI
......Yes you are correct as of now MSA2040 not yet tested with ESX6.7 so any outcome will be unpredictable.I do agree with your stress testing but we understand and do the analysis for MSA only in...
View ArticleP2000 MSA G3 Controller B network degraded (but still seems to be working)
Hi all, I've got an odd issue on an old P2000 G3 MSA storage system. It has 2 controllers both of which are working fine and a number of expansion units (again all working as expected). I...
View ArticleRe: P2000 MSA G3 Controller B network degraded (but still seems to be working)
Your plan seems fine but you can also try full power cycle of the MSA by plan a downtime for this activity.If still issue persists then you can try with single controller by keeping other controller in...
View ArticleNew Failover/DR Setup with MSA
Hi Guys, I have a client that has bought 4 DL380 servers (2PR and 2DR) as well as 2 MSA 2050 (1PR and 1DR).The environment is purely Windows, hence Hyper-V will be in use for virtualization. Any advice...
View ArticleRe: MSA 2040 - extending Volume used as datastore in ESXi 6.7
Hi Subhajit,Your question about Netapp. NetApp was preseting the storage to esxi as NFS (not iSCSI).This is why there was nothing to do on the vSphere side in the Netapp environment. I was not the...
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