P2000 G3 trusted Vdisk after drives in LEFTOVR state.
Hi guys!The scenario is a MSA P2000 G3 storage with one expansion enclosure. There's just one Vdisk (RAID 5) created with 15 drives and one hotspare. We had a power outage last night and the 5 drives...
View ArticleHPE Storevirtual - 2 hosts dead - No Quorum - stuck
Hello gents,1st - it`s stupid I know - not a SAN guru myself but trying it - problem is that I`ve tried in my "prod" environmentPast scenario 3 hostshost1 - VSA 500gb host2 - VSA 500gbhost3 - FOMall...
View ArticleRe: MSA2000/P2000 G3 Compact Flash card format?
After playing a bit with controllers and CF cards, I assume the following...You CAN exchange the CF cards. They are only used to store cache data in case of an unsuccessful shutdown or failure of a...
View ArticleP2000 San Mappings
Hi we have a P2000 SAN that consists of 2 Controllers with 3 to 4 volumes on each controller. We also have multiple hosts listed under the host section. We are trying to remove some older hosts that...
View ArticleHP MSA 2040 VS Lenovo V3700
Hi Guys, Doing some comparisons between HP MSA 2040 and Lenovo V3700.IBM V3700 has standard SAS ports and you can add either SAN or another SAS Ports the question is can we use SAS ports and SAN (for...
View Article8/20q Fibre Channel Switch Java Issues
Hello, I am fighting an issue of bringing up the gui for my 8/20q Fibre Channel Switch, I probally have not logged into it, in a few years. I needed to move some things around, but now when I do try to...
View ArticleReplacing P4500 with 4530
Dear all,we plan to replace our old P4500 nodes with new 4530 nodes.Our configuration is a multisite SAN with 3 nodes per site.Now I search a best practice guide to replace the old P4500 nodes with...
View ArticleRe: 8/20q Fibre Channel Switch Java Issues
higo to java site and look for old versions and downloadjre-7u21-windows-i586.exe usually...
View ArticleTwo Node HPE StoreVirtual 3200 questions
Hi,Is it possible to have a two node HPE StoreVirtual 3200 configured in a cluster? Or is it that, each node is supposed to be configured seperately with upto 3 enclosures and I cannot have two nodes...
View ArticleRe: Two Node HPE StoreVirtual 3200 questions
Obviously with OS13.5 you can do this.Still looking for the manuals ...see...
View ArticleVMware Setup - Am I missing anything?
Last time I built a VMware setup, I used a 1040 SAN. This time, I hope to crank up the speed a bit. The 1040 is not the fastest.I came up with ZERO pre-sales support from HPE or Ingram Micro, so here I...
View ArticleRe: VMware Setup - Am I missing anything?
As far as I can see:This DAC Cable is not Supportet for the MSA (look in MSA QuickSpec).The Switch can do only 1GB (is it right)? If so you can not use 10GB DAC Cable.Use an 10GB Switch 59xx.I prefer 6...
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Re: Replacing P4500 with 4530
,I can partially answer your question and I'll need to talk to some of my experts to get a more complete answer. I recently had a lab environment of VSAs that I was using to create video demos. One...
View ArticleRe: VMware Setup - Am I missing anything?
Thank you for your response. The description of the switch says:"In addition, the 2920 switch series supports up to four optional 10 Gigabit Ethernet (SFP+ and/or 10GBASE-T) ports, as well as a...
View ArticleRe: Browser Requirements for HP 8/20q QLogic Fiber Channel Switch
So here we are with the same problem 2017, 2 days of trying to load JAVA so I can use my Fibre Channel Swich, and I still cannot get the GUI to come up. I really want to know what we are suppose to do...
View Articleunable to browse the web interface of the 8/20q Fiber Channel switch
I am unable to load the GUI on either IE or Firefox, I have at least 5 different versions and combonations of browsers and Java Versions. I cannot find any thing anywhere that seems to have a solution....
View ArticleRe: 8/20q Fibre Channel Switch Java Issues
I tried that version as well as 5 others, and also tried to use Fire Fox as well. Still cannot connect to the switch.
View ArticleRe: How to add host in MSA 2040 SAN storage?
Thanks Torsten,Now "Add to host" is available but its asking me for "Host select" when i click on drop list its empty (see the attached)Should i write host manually or what?
View ArticleRe: How to add host in MSA 2040 SAN storage?
As said, configure the initiators, then add them to a host.For step by step, google MSA 1040/2040SMU Reference Guide
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