MSA 2040 Phyisical Disk Move
Hello expert.We are planning to increase our storage on an MSA2040. Currently the disks are split between the MSA 2040 and a D2700. To increase the storage we are thinking about executing the...
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I understand you have MSA2040 along with D2700 attached as drive enclosure. You want to add another D2700 after the existing D2700. Then want to move all existing drives from Controller Enclosure to...
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Thanks Subhajit for confirming we can move the disks. It's actullay a bit of an infrastructure refresh, and the new D2700 will be added to the SAN temporarilty just to move disks, so that we can put...
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Hello,As Subhajit has stated - either adding drives to the D2700 or the controller enclosure should not be an issue. The only caution I would make is adding drives to a linear vdisk using expansion....
View ArticleMSA 5052 - Recreating pool A, data and vms on pool B
I have 2 SSD's and 20 10k SAS drives in my 2052 and I currently am not happy with how I initially set this up.I created a rather large 14+1 raid 5 array that I would like to redo. I have a small raid 5...
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Sounds like a good plan! Of course, always have a backup but your plan sounds solid. Removing everything in pool A will not effect what is in Pool B.
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Also, I think you have already learned this, based on the posting, but make sure you are setting up the MSA in a way that you will continue to grow it. In general, it works best, to have similar...
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Thank you for the response.I forgot to add that the SSDs are 800gb, and the HDDs are 1.8TB.
View ArticleRe: Msa 1050 SAS fan-out cable and options questions
Hi in System topic, when i select Action, there isn't any option Set Up Host Ports.Do you have any idea?
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Kindly provide step by step screenshot of the SMU so that I can check and get back to you Hope this helps!RegardsSubhajitIf you feel this was helpful please click the KUDOS! thumb...
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Thanks, the storage needs a restart to change the host ports, i think it's automatic.After restart, now the SMU see correctly Y cable without any warnings. Thanks again for the fast reply and the support.
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Good to know that issue has been resolved. Kindly mark this forum as resolved so that others can get the update. Hope this helps!RegardsSubhajitIf you feel this was helpful please click the KUDOS!thumb...
View ArticleMSA 1050 QuickSpecs HDDs Random Reads/Writes and SSDs Sequential Reads/Writes...
Hi! Please, explain, why HPE doesn't fill in all the fields in Performance Results tables in QuickSpecs? I mean empty fields for HDDs Random Reads/Writes and SSDs Sequential Reads/Writes.
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MSA p2000 SMU Performance report
Hi all,We have an MSA p2000 with some applications. When we try to view the performance of a disk or a vdisk, no data are shown even when we specify other period of time, for example last day...
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Hello,When I view the latest performance numbers in QUickspecs I see numbers for most of the fields.There are fields for SSDs sequential reads and writes that are empty. If you are doing sequential...
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Hi,What is the controller firmware for P2000, It will be good practice to ensure that we are at latest firmware for this MSA as it is an old MSA.Latest firmware version available :...
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I would suggest to check from left side of the page where you need to select the drive or the vdisk for which you want to generate data.May be if you can share step by step screenshot that you are...
View ArticleMSA 2050 RAID disk groups
Hi,We have purchased 2 SSD 800GB disks and 5 SAS 900GB. What is the best configuration to set the the Disk groups on Pool A? We were thinking of RAID 1 on the SSD and RAID 5 on the 5 SAS all of these...
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Hello.Unless you purchased the "Advanced Data Services" license, for the 2050, then the only way you can utilize the SSD's is as a read cache tier. If the system is all SSD then you don't need the...
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