MSA Best Practice Part #2: Updating Expansion Module Firmware
Check out part #2 of the MSA Best Practice video series. Part #2 focuses on updating Expansion Module Firmware.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a-FaQcWhBc&feature=youtu.beRemeber to maximize...
View ArticleInquiry about the number of CPU core and CPU type on MSA1050/MSA2052
Hi everyone!!I'm Yujiro Toda which is taking charge of configuration support of the storage products from Japan. As a result I have checked various documnets into the HPE web site included Japan and...
View ArticleNot access to the management console
Hello,I have an MSA 2040 that I can not access to the management console.Does it just reboot the storage to return with access?Is there any option without the need to restart storage?As I can not...
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Try to access controllers directly connecting them through Serial cable (Part number:592266-001)Please find the guide to connect to Controller CLI...
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Hello,I can ping the management IP.I read that I can try restarting using (telnet). Is this work?restart mc a and restart mc bThank you.
View ArticleRe: Not access to the management console
if you are able to ping management IPs then issue could be something else but common to both controllers.You can try clear temp files of the management system as well as browser.You can try different...
View ArticleRe: Inquiry about the number of CPU core and CPU type on MSA1050/MSA2052
Q1:MSA has no "Classic CPU" (Intel/AMD), it has a special ASIC (like a Raid Kontroller).https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application-specific_integrated_circuitQ2:As using a ASIC it have no Cores.Q3:It is...
View ArticleMSA 2052 volumes sizes
What are the size reocmmendations for volumes in a hyper-v environment. Should we create one large volume and present to the hyper-v hosts then format smaller disks on the host, maybe have a volume on...
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I would suggest you to go through the below White paper and HPE MSA 2050/2052 storage and Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Implementation...
View ArticleRe: MSA 2052 volumes sizes
Hi,When asking this type of question take into consideration what hardware you currently have now and what your future growth might be. With your current amount of drives, 2 SSDs and 6 HDDs, you are...
View ArticleRe: MSA 2052 volumes sizes
Thank you Subhajit our problem, we have looked and looked but there doesn't seem to be a recommendation that says, use one large volume for data because, or one small volume for vhd/x/s to protect...
View ArticleRe: MSA 2052 volumes sizes
I would recommend to go with single Pool and single large Volume as your setup not so big. This will help you to get the Automatic tier feature which in turn will help to improve performance as well....
View ArticleHow to add a disk into a disk group in MSA2050
Hi all：If I want to add a single disk to a disk group in a pool to expand the disk group,How to do can fulfil this ask?
View ArticleRe: MSA 2040 Reserved space utilization
HiNow I have expanded the available disk space to a particular vdisk as in the picture(san.jpg) where it was intially 2 TB and after expanding its 3.1 TB which is mapped to a server but the server says...
View ArticleRe: MSA 2040 Reserved space utilization
Try to stop production or application running on this MSA volume. Unpresent/unmap the volume from MSA and represent/remap the same Hope this helps!RegardsSubhajitIf you feel this was helpful please...
View ArticleImplement SAN redundancy MSA2040
Hi all,We have two MSA 2040 SAN with the information mentioned below:Vendor : HP MSA 2040 SANMode : SPS-CHASSISNumber of Disks : 6 (4 disks in RAID 10 and 2 disks are spared)Midplane Serial Number...
View ArticleRe: Implement SAN redundancy MSA2040
If you want to eliminate SAN Switch and implement replication then this is not supported as per HPE official document. Please refer the below document (page no...
View ArticleRe: How to add a disk into a disk group in MSA2050
It's not possible to include drives in existing Virtual Disk Groups. This is as per design limitation in MSA2050 or MSA Virtual Array technology.If you have requirement to increase Pool space then you...
View ArticleRe: Implement SAN redundancy MSA2040
Thanks for your reply,Do you know what happend if direct connection is used between two systems?Regards,
View ArticleRe: Implement SAN redundancy MSA2040
I am not sure........we follow what is officially supported because if we implement something which is not supported by HPE then any further issue arise or any furture issue we will not get support...
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