MSA 2040 question
Hello, i have a MSA 2040 and i have some questions.1. What is the difference between Disk Group Type "Virtual" and "linear"?2. What are the advantages of Virtual vs. Linear?3. For what the pools be...
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To make it short and simple - "linear" is the old style used by the G1 to G3 model already. You create a vdisk on a number of disks, let's say 5 disks for a RAID5 and create LUNs within. Then another...
View ArticleSafe Disk Firmware Upgrade on a P2000 G3?
Looking for advice on how to upgrade the disk firmware on a P2000. What I thought would be a safe way to do this was to first get all the data off of the vdisk by migrating them to a different vdisk...
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the official recommendation is to stop all i/o to the array when upgrading disk firmware. not so nice ... from a randomly selected disk firmware...
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Yeah, I did read that as well. Seems super odd that if there are critical HDD firmware to apply, one has to stop all production in order to do so. I have applied FW updates before on a live system....
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Updating disks in a MSA is a sad story ... you need to get each file one by one and put your array offline ... :-(Other arrays (old EVA and new 3PAR) can do this much better.However, I already did this...
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Ahh, that makes sense. When I did just 1 drive of the vDisk, I didn't really see much in vSphere happen. Just the Orphaned Data e-mail from the controller. Wasn't until I did the rest of that array...
View ArticleRe: Safe Disk Firmware Upgrade on a P2000 G3?
I do not expect a change at least for the P2000 (this is G3), but hopefully seagate (dothill formerly) as the OEM will do the homework and improve this process for newer generations like MSA2040 ......
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> 3PAR set the disk in question in logging mode, that means more or less offline ... You still need to be careful not to upgrade too many PDs at the same time.
View ArticleRe: P2000 G3 - Can you rearrange the physical drives
I also want to rearrange the disks. The way HP pre-installed the disks was enclosure 1 disk 1, enclosure 2 disk 1, so they basically populated top to down and started again going towards to right,...
View ArticleRe: MSA P2000 G3 and Hardware VSS
I,m use wrong VSS VDS drivers, from another model MSA P2040. Im download P2000 drivers, install this, now all work fine.
View Articlesan msa2040 mapping error
i have a san storge msa 2040 with scsi controler and i have 4 host connected on it and mapping one of them after i restart it it not discover my the San storge but in the windows iscsi instetor its...
View ArticleRe: HP MSA 2040 password reset
Did you ever get a solution to this? I am trying to recover an the manage account.
View ArticleMSA 2040 Password Recovery
I have a MSA 2040 array, that I don't know the manage password to. What is the process to reset the password?
View ArticleMSA 2000, changed management subnet, can no longer connect to management...
Pretty much as this posts subject.The management ports IP address has been left the same but I changed the subnet from 255.255.255.0 to 255.255.0.0 and now I can no longer ping the IP address of the...
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... it looks like I need to restart just the management controller using the mini serial cable, which I don't have, but at least I have the part number to see if my usual supliers can source it.
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HiIf you only changed the subnet you should be ableto connect directly to the controller with a laptop or another computer and from there you can setthe correct ip address for the controllerRegards
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You'd like to think that but nope, no joy :-(After much digging around in a mess of cables I found the CLI one and restarted the management controllers, everythings's OK now.
View ArticleFirmware update for controller on HP 2000 G3 MSA
When trying to download the firmware update, it prompts for OS. AFAIK, there is no OS....only firmware on the SAN. What do I choose here? Also...is there a way to backup the current firmware before...
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The firmware itself is bundled with a loader for windows or...
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