Re: MSA 2052 & Vsphere 6.7 - discrepancy free space
Physical Capacity of the System-------------------------------------------Total Physical Disk Capacity of the MSA = (9873 + 1490 + 1676) GiB = 13039 GiBVDG Space = 9873 GiBGlobal Spare = 1676 GiBUnused...
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Hi,I have a MSA 1050 with VE100R002 firmware configured as below:- Pool A -> DiskGroup1 -> 4 x 300GB 10K SAS RAID5- Pool A -> DiskGroup2 -> 3 x 300GB 10K SAS RAID5- Global Spare -> 1 x...
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First check how much space used or consumed by DiskGroup2. Also you need to check how much space is free for DiskGroup1 because when you delete DiskGroup2 then all data will migrate from DiskGroup2 to...
View ArticleRe: MSA 2052 & Vsphere 6.7 - discrepancy free space
That physical unused space is the hot spare.See output for pools, volume, disk groups and disks: # show poolsName Serial Number Blocksize Total Size Avail Snap Size OverCommit Disk Groups Volumes Low...
View ArticleRe: MSA 2052 & Vsphere 6.7 - discrepancy free space
Thank you for sharing the outputs but remove serial numbers from the outputs as it's not good to share serial numbers in public forum.Please note you have one SSD drive size of 1490 GiB at location...
View ArticleRe: MSA 2052 & Vsphere 6.7 - discrepancy free space
Thanks for the reply.I'm already aware of Base 2vs10 and already switched to base 2.I ran the folowing command on one of the ESXi hosts cli:esxcli storage vmfs unmap -u...
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You can refer the below HPE Support Community forum on the automatic space reclaim topic and it was that time ESX 6.5 but same logic still applies for ESX 6.7 as...
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Disk Performance Statistics non-media errors
Hello,I have a question about the MSA 2040 GL225P002-02 Disk Performance Statistics.Initially I was worried, because the CLI-Command: "# show disk-statistics all historical 5.5"Shows many Disk Errors...
View ArticleRe: Putty to MSA 1040 gives sh: write error: No space left on device
This was the first thread I found when I hit this issue on an HPE MSA 2050 so I'll respond here:The management controller did indeed run out of space for logs on node B for me - I fixed it from Node A...
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There are two things here-> One Drive performance and another one drive errorIf you want to check drive performance then I would suggest to refer output of "show disk-statistics". If you are facing...
View ArticleRe: MSA 2052 & Vsphere 6.7 - discrepancy free space
Yes "UUID: 5c5c5xxx-7291e540-xxx-5480xxx23b90" represents MSA volume named "MSA2050-SAS".(x's are from me)It's what I see under the datstore in vsphere:Typ:VMFS...
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Unable to access "URL:ds:///vmfs/volumes/5c5c5357-7291e540-3b67-548028523b90/"Better if you share screenshot as image file.If ESX end MSA2050-SAS volume shows as 5.99TB as used compared to 4443.7GiB...
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MSA 2040 Can't create new disk group
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...
View ArticleMSA P2000 G3 replace failed controller -cant shutdown the failed controller...
Hello.i have a failed controller A and tried to follow the steps of replacing it....tried to shut it down in order to getthe blue light that it will be fine to replace.i got an error of that...
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Re: Implementation of a replication method between MSA 2050 and MSA 1050
Hello,Thank you very much for your answer! Great news!Sorry for my late answer, I wanted to take the time to try. I am aware that this is not a robust backup solution. Thank you.I made a configuration...
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Hi Patric,Please delete the read cache disk groups to resolve the issue.Note: Schedule the activity during low IOs as there would be read performance degradation after deleting read cache disk...
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There are certain check marks which you need to fulfill,>> We can see that you have SSD read cache configured so you can't create normal SSD Vitual Disk Group (VDG) with the presense of SSD read...
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Hi Luke,It does not seem to capture the reason for controller B reporting degraded status.I would recommend to first fix controller B issues before replacing controller A.Restarting storage controller...
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already tried to re-seat controller A but that didnt work.i dont see in the logs that B is degraded , the only thing i got when started to do the process of replacing the controller (via SMU tried to...
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Hi ,May I know the output of the following commands?show cache-parametersshow vdisksshow portsshow controllers
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