HP 2012fc DC Modular Smart Array crashed controller and multiple drive failures
Hi, New here so be nice to me please..We have a customer who has 2 Storage Works with the attached SAN Smart Array.Last year one failed and we had to rebuild the smart array and re-archive...
View ArticleRe: MSA2042 connect a P2000 to it
Dear MikeThank you. After reading the upgrade path pdf that you linked i see also that the P2000 is not supported but i see that all 6G sas disks and 6G MDL disks are also not supported. This is pretty...
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Chris, the 6G SAS drives will be your limiting factor as they are not supported in the MSA205x in any enclosure. As long as your drives are SAS, and not SATA, you should be good to go on the upgrade to...
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This is an old MSA2000 generation 1, but maybe the firmware on your array was never updated. This is an almost 10 years old known buggy version,...
View ArticleRe: HP 2012fc DC Modular Smart Array crashed controller and multiple drive...
Hello John,I do not see any logs attached but based off the two screenshots you have three drives in a leftover (possibly failed) state, with 7 slots possibly containing missing drives. There is also...
View ArticleRe: MSA2042 connect a P2000 to it
Well i dont give up yet for the 2052...I will ask for official answer from HP because im not convinced yet. The D2700 enclosure that is supported from 2050/2 accept only 6G disks (i suppose you can put...
View ArticleHPE D3600 Enclosure
Problem is the Enclosure displays on POS screen an error message : 4 TB SATA 512e HDD at Port 1E : BOX 1Could not be authenticated as a genuine HPE drive. The smart RAID/HBA control will not control...
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Chris, the SFF D2700 shelf itself supports 6G and 12G drives. The drives that are currently sold and qualified for the MSA 20xx, in the D2700, are all 12G drives. As per that document, 6G drives are...
View ArticleRe: MSA2042 connect a P2000 to it
Thx MikeIts ok i procceded with the 2042. In specific i ordered this parts1 x Q0F72A HPE MSA 2042 SAN Dual Controller with Mainstream Endurance Solid State Drive SFF Storage (I ordered this because has...
View ArticleMSA2042 Unmap on ESX6.5
Hi,I hope anyone here is running a setup similar to mine, because I can't figure this out based on the documentation and I can't live-test this right now.Setup:*ESXi 6.5 (full patched soft &...
View ArticleMSA2324i physical migration prerequisites
Hi experts,There's a site consolidation, where, two MSA2423i arrays from two different sites are going to be lifted and shifted to a new third site. The host to storage connectivity is over iSCSI. What...
View ArticleRe: MSA2042 connect a P2000 to it
Dear Mike I finished ordering the 2042 so im fine from this side... but i have a last question.HP Greece tries to find the AP844B but is there a difference between AP844B and AP844A ? i ask because i...
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Chris,The presence of an A, B, etc on the end of a part number usually indicates that it's different lifecyle generations of the same product. The A and B units *should* be functionally equivalent but...
View ArticleHP MSA 2300i Unhealthy controller
Hi,I have HP MSA 2300i with controller A and B. Currently there is warning unhealthy controller and PSU. When I check from controller A, it is showing B is unhealthy and from controller B, it is...
View ArticleRe: HP MSA 2300i Unhealthy controller
Hello,The information you provided doesn't yield any clues. Please SSH or telnet to the MSA, issue the command "show system", and paste the results in the thread. ThanksMike
View ArticleMSA shared storage MSA2312sa
Hello ALL When i use the command show vdisks i saw the number of disk 8, but using the command show disks only 7 are displayed, any explaination.Thanks
View ArticleRe: MSA shared storage MSA2312sa
show disks will tell you information about the physical disks installed in the system (size, health, etc). show vdisk tells you about your disk (or RAID) groups. I'm not exactly sure how you can have 8...
View ArticleRe: MSA shared storage MSA2312sa
I mean show vdisk command, show the number of disks is 8 not the number of vdisk is 8# show disksLocation Serial Number Vendor Rev How Used Type SizeRate(Gb/s) SP...
View ArticleRe: MSA shared storage MSA2312sa
You have a failed, or removed, drive. Your vdisk health status is "critical". Time to locate a 146GB drive (or larger) and plug it in the system. Or, ideally, two drives and marking one as a spare.
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Decomissioning HP MSA2324i
Hello all,We are currently using an MSA2324i, with an MSA70 attached to it for our storage needs. We will soon be transitionsing away from it to another solution, but I'm really not sure what to do...
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