Re: HPE MSA Storage Configuration and Best Practices for VMware vSphere
The document you referred to https://h20195.www2.hpe.com/v2/getpdf.aspx/4aa4-7060enw.pdf on page 24 (and the "Best Practice" on pg 25), HPE recommends to use a RAID 6 VDG for pools A and B, and use a...
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MSA2050 or MSA2052 there is no concept of linear anymore. All Virtual only.If anyone go for MSA2050 with reach cache option then that person will achive performance in terms of read operation only when...
View ArticleRe: DL 380 gen9, H241, MSA2050 no SAS connected volumes
Nice to hear that your issue is resolved now.Do you have any further outstanding query on this topic?Request you to please update on the forum so that everyone can get the update who are all...
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Subhajit,Maybe I wasn't clear...My question wasn't about the difference between read cache and tiering. The document 4AA4-7060ENW, from August 2017, on page 24 does not recommend tiering, but instead...
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As per my understanding any product user guide or Best practice guide is just a generic guidance to learn the product only but in practical no document can provide exact design which can match your...
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Hello GMZ,Without knowing exactly how you are planning to deploy your VMs it is hard to give you specific answers to configuration. Please bear in mind, my answers will be aimed at a high level and not...
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Thanks Shawn_KThings are a little clearer, but how about this ...Referring to that Vmware Vest Practise document yet again... On the top of p25 it recommends to use a "single Virtual Volume for each...
View ArticleRe: New HPE Tool - MSA Health Check
Is there anyway we can download the MSA log files through CLI? Thank you.
View ArticleRe: New HPE Tool - MSA Health Check
FTP method:*********************Downloading logs to a file1. In SMU, prepare to use FTP:a. Determine the network-port IP addresses of the system’s controllers.b. Verify that the system’s FTP service...
View Articlecan't remove disk group on msa 2050
I have a msa 2050,it's a demo machine,when it return from customer to me,I found there are 3 disk group in the system ,and there are no any Pool in system When I want to delete any one of the disk...
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# show disk-groupsName Size Free Pool Tier % of Pool Own RAID Disks Status Current Job Job% Sec Fmt Health Reason...
View ArticleRe: can't remove disk group on msa 2050
Your situation is you have drive 1.11 where old disk group dgA01 information still available as part of drive metadata which is showing this disk-group information. So when you try to dequarantine the...
View ArticleCPG nearly full - Help
Hello guys,I new in storage system, i have a 3par HPE 7200c, i have:Summary Storage SystemAllocated: 17 TB - Free: 8 TBCPGFc_r5 - Raid 5 - Allocated: 13.5 TB (95%) - Free: 614 GB - Used: 12.9TBSo if...
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If you really want to learn 3PAR then start using command line.As per the details you have share it's not clear how much is your total raw space in your system. As you have mentioned only one CPG which...
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Hello SUBHAJIT, and thanks for your helps.3ParImcruz01 cli% showpd -c48 total 26208 16573 0 8543 0 0 0 0 0 1092 0 0 3ParImcruz01 cli% showspace -cpg...
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Please note showpd -c output shows size in GB and showsys -space shows space in MB but both command output shows raw space means without RAID overhead. (for simple I have shown GB and MB, not...
View ArticleMSA 2040 SMU Setup for VMWare
Hi all,I just wanted some advice on the new SMU (v3) for configuring the MSA 2040 for VMware. I've been so used to using the old SMU (I think it's version 2) for setting up HP SANs that the new version...
View ArticleMSA2052 Best Practise placement for 10 disks
Hi guys,I'm relatively new into using MSA devices and I have a general question. I've purchased a MSA2052 with 10 1.8TB 10K SAS disks. Is there a best practise about placing the disks into the drive...
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There is no disk placement rule in MSA for your situation.Only thing if you have SSD and SAS drives along with multiple drive enclosure then keep in mind that SSD need to place in array enclosure to...
View ArticleRe: MSA 2040 SMU Setup for VMWare
If your requirement is to use MSA 2040 as Virtual array then better to follow MSA 2050 SMU guide because in MSA 2050 there is no more linear concept or you can use SMU V2. Everything with MSA 2050 is...
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