Re: MSA 2052 tiering
Dear Thank you for your questions.The answer to all your questions can be found in the best practice guide. Volume Tier Affinity is a settable attribute that allows a storage administrator to define...
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Hi Vikas, im still not sure what it means?As i understand i need just to create a raid 1 with my both ssd's disk types: esas performance on e.g. Pool A.Than evyrthing i craets on pool A will uses the...
View ArticleMSA 2040: replace SAS controllers with FC (on the fly)
Hello, I'm in process of replacing SAS with FC.Currently I have MSA 2040 with 2 servers connected to it using SAS.I have FC switches in place, HBAs installed into servers and FC controllers ready to be...
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Hi Al,Unfortunately what you propose is not supported or the best way to replace the SAS controllers with FC controllers. You cannot have two different fabric types connected to the same...
View ArticleRe: MSA 2052 tiering
Yes your understanding is correctWhen we have tier model then any volume part of that Pool will be using tier architecture until and unless we have any specific rule set as Volume Tier Affinitynow if...
View ArticleRe: Performance Impact on creating Virtual Disk Groups with different RAID Types
I would suggest to refer best practice white paper and consider section "Disk Group Considerations",https://h20195.www2.hpe.com/V2/getpdf.aspx/4AA4-6892ENW.pdf (Page no 22)"With the GL200 and greater...
View ArticleMSA 2052 diskgroup and vmware
Hi all,I'm just trying to understand my new MSA 2052.So i have just created a raid 1 with two SSD'S within Pool A and Raid 5 Volume also within Pool A Diskgroup for tiering purposes.So the DIskgroup...
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P2000 G3 is Linear array which means any volume space is fully allocated space. Any volume space can be directly mapped from the vdisk in particular.MS2052 is Virtual Array which means any volume...
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ok got it,but the volumes are formated already within vmware so the whole space should be now alocated no matter how many vmdk's are on it. I guess storage shouldn't care about vmdks as vmware already...
View ArticleMSA2040 replace larger disk ...
There're two DL380 G9 using FC link to MSA2040, MSA2040 hard disk 2TB x10, and is going to change to 4TB x12, how to replace the disks (procedule)? one-by-one? will it affect the vm?
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You could have taken one MSA volume and share outputs of the below commands as i don't go by SMU output for better understanding,show volumesshow disk-groupsshow poolsAlso you could have share...
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You haven't mentioned if this is Virtual array or Linear array. I am assuming this is Linear array.If you have ESX VM then you can migrate your VMs to some other Storage with the help of Vmotion...
View ArticleInitiators, hosts and clusters
When I map a lun, I can map it to initiator, or ig I have created a host to that host or i guess if i have created a cluster to a cluster.Is this just a gui thing? If I have mapped 3 luns as initiators...
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I would suggest you to go through SMU guide to get details on the same,https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=a00017707en_usFor MSA1050/2050 you can refer the above link and check...
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Thank you.But is it safe to add already mapped initiators/hosts to a group?My native language is not english so manual may provide that info, but I do not understand :-)
View ArticleMSA2000 Partner Firmware Update... how do I know?
I am frequently testing MSA2k controllers that came back from customers. Some are defective and some not. Currently I have two working G3 SAS controllers with different firmware levels. Partner...
View ArticleRe: Initiators, hosts and clusters
You can add existing hosts to an existing host group or new host group.To add a host to a host group, the host must have the same mappings as all other members of the group. This means that the host...
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MSA 1050 With SSD poor performance
Hi,2 HP Proliant 360 Servers (Hyper V cluster)MSA 1050 storage with 4 SSD (Raid 10)iSCSI 10Gb 4 dac's MSA<>Switch + 2 dac's Hyperv1<>Switch + 2 dac's Hyperv2<>SwitchSome images from...
View ArticleRe: MSA2000 Partner Firmware Update... how do I know?
Hello, For the P2000 the only way to see the firmware upgrade is through SMU.Only do this step if there is no data at risk and the system is healthy and completely stable. If the controllers are not...
View ArticleReset lost Password on MSA2050
We lost the MANAGE Password from a MSA 2050...In the Internet I only found solotion for P2000 and 2040 that don´t work....Any Idea?
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