Questions tagged [hp-modular-smart-array]
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MSA volume is more used than the StoreEasy disk
I meet a problem on connection between MSA - Proliant servers.
The volume has been created on MSA in raid 6: https://i.stack.imgur.com/6lUIY.png
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What is the bottleneck of my HP MSA? Is it intended for a CSV at all?
I am an apprentice at a company in Switzerland.
We have a testing / learning environment for us, which consists of multiple physical servers.
There are two physical Microsoft Hyper-V servers that are ...
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Can a HP P2000 G3 SAN with SAS controller direct connect to a Dell PowerEdge Server with a Dell brand HBA [closed]
I am building a home rig and have recently acquired an HP P2000 G3 SAN with SAS controllers. I appreciate these are supposed to connect into a DL380 G7 or G8 with the HP branded SAS interface card (...
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Veeam Hyper-V Cluster Off-Host Backup Proxy
I'm creating a new HPE configuration for a Hyper-V cluster.
Need also to consider Veeam and Off-Host Backup Proxy.
This might be a silly question, but considering HPE MSA 2052, does it make any ...
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Command to show storage usage on HP MSA 2040 SAN?
Is there any way to show me the usage on HP MSA2040 SAN storage?
I am searching this for while, but no luck at all. I need to know the usage of the entire SAN storage by just running command from cli ...
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Shared Hyper-V storage using iSCSI
I have 2 servers with Hyper-V 2016 hosts and a MSA 2040 storage, both are connected via iSCSI. Hosts are running on thight internal storage.
I need to store all my VMs into the MSA, but if I ...
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MSA60 error log in OpenVMS 8.3?
I have two MSA60 (with rx2660 server under OPENVMS - RAID6), suddenly after replacing 3 faulty SAS disks with new ones, 11 old disks in one of the tower showing amber alert (predictive failure). I ...
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MSA 2040 SAN - duplicate virtual volume
Good Afternoon guys,
I have a MSA 2040 SAN for storage. My problem is that when I create a virtual volume and map it to a server, the server shows 2 volumes on the disk management. I've tried, many ...
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SAN array storage not accessible
Good morning peeps. I'm fairly new sys admin world and am working in my first systems engineer position (jr) and inherited a dual drive SAN array last week which was entirely unused without being ...
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How to recover from "Invalid Drive Movement" (HP SmartArray P411)
Due to hurricane Matthew, our company shutdown all servers for two days. One of the servers was an ESXi host with an attached HP StorageWorks MSA60.
When we powered things back up today and logged ...
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HP MSA P2000 G3 SAN Performance
I have a three server Hyper-V 2012 cluster which points at LUNs based on an HP MSA P2000 G3 SAN for the virtual hard disk storage. I am experiencing speed issues and one thing that has been ...
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Lights not working on HP msa 2040 [closed]
I have HP MSA 2040, it has total of 12 disks 3 of the disk lights are off. How to check the issue? Or are they off due to any configuration or raid?
Another question how to check what raid is ...
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Failing to mount SCSI from HP Modular Smart Array (MSA20)
I have acquired a HP dl360 g4p with a MSA20 Modular Smart Array.
Currently I have Arch Linux installed on it since I had some issues with the graphics. But that is not why I am asking a question.
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SAS expander card, not detecting DAS, is this supposed to work?
I have a similar sas expander HSTNM-B017 and when I connect an external DAS unit to it (HP StorageWorkd MSA50) nothing shows up in device manager or disk manager, as if its not connected.
do you have ...
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Management interface/SSH no longer working for HP MSA storage array
I'm having issues accessing a storage array through the web interface/SSH on a MSA2324sa. I already emailed HP however I was wondering if anyone has ran into this. When I try to access the interface ...
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HP MSA70 / P800 Array Failure - Shows 2 drives in each slot, 13/25 drives "missing"
We have an HP MSA70 with 25 x 600GB HP SAS 10k DP drives, connected to an HP P800 controller. The drives are configured in RAID 6.
Yesterday, some kind of unknown "event" occurred and the array ...
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ALL drives on MSA60 have blue UID LED lit
We have a pair of MSA60's connected to two different servers. Today I ran a diagnostic report via the HP Array Configuration utility in order to obtain the serial numbers of the devices.
Now that ...
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Need the "msacli.exe" file for monitoring P2000 SAN. IOPS values needed
Hi i need some performance stats from our MSA p2000 SAN. The Problem is that i want to have the values i get when i connect via SSH and use the command "show vdisk-statistics". This command shows me ...
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Will msa2324sa work with MSA60?
We have an HP msa2324sa (HP MSA 2000 g2 sas) and need to expand storage.
Will the MSA60 work with the msa2324sa?
Will the MSA60 support 6TB drives?
We're looking at WD Red drives. Why do ...
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Mapping LUNs to drive slots on a MSA2312i?
I'm working with an older MSA2312i. I really need map the current LUN configuration to associated slots via the SSH so I can make it scriptable. Is there a ready way to do so?
I would have thought a ...
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Postfix, MSA, Smarthost, and LAN
I've, let's say, 5 servers. They are either public and private or only private (network), they all send e-mails, either system e-mails (local mailbox) or installed application (wiki, issues tracker, ...
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HP MSA2000, how detect faulty disks?
I have an HP MSA2012fc, it happened a few times that my large vdisk (6x 1TB raid 5) get offline, seems some disks are faulty, the event log only shows 2 of the drives had "bad blocks" and some disk ...
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Duplicate drive reported on MSA50
I am not sure why but whenever I install a drive in bay 1 or bay 2 of my MSA50, ACU reports that two drives are present in the bay:
This does not happen to any other bay but bays 1 and 2.
The disc ...
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auth on msa2324fc via xml api failed
I'll try to use my script ( which has been written for msa p2000 g3 ) with old san array msa2324. It seems like array actually do authorization and return session key, but my next request ( with ...
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HP MSA1500 - getting past the 2TB limit?
I currently have (7) 300GB drives in the MSA1500. This is configured with RAID 5 which results in a 1.8TB drive, about 1.6TB formatted. I still have 7 more empty slots in the enclosure that I would ...
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HPacucli sees my MSA1000 in centos5 but not in centos6
I reinstalled my centos5 with centos6 and now I cannot manage my MSA1000 with hpacucli anymore. I can see the /dev/sdX arrays, but hpacucli not cpqacuxe sees the controller on MSA1000.
I still can ...
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Is it possible to convert an HP MSA20 from U320 to SAS?
Is it possible to replace the U320 controller(s) from an MSA20 with SAS/SATA controller(s) in order to attach the MSA20 to a SAS host adapter, like a P800 or P400 for example?
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Creating a raid on MSA60, will it check for bad disks?
I'm recreating the raid on a old msa60. Would it check for bad disks when I create it? It is three msa60 enclosure with 12bay and 1TB each. I need around 24TB usable storage, what would the ideal raid ...
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HP ACU shows parity initialization failed on Smart Array controller
I put in a new drive due to a hard drive failure. When the rebuild got to 100%, the controller fails and I need to reboot the server to bring it online. I had to do this about three times and it ...
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Parity Initialization after putting in two new disks
All my firmware is up to date on the server and the controllers.
Storage crashed over the weekend. I rebooted it and it detected that I put in two new disks last week (I did check that both disk ...
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Are my disks within this MSA storage failing?
When I go into my HP Array Configuration Utility, there is no errors and and warnings. No visible amber lights either. Should I swap out the disks? This Windows server lost the storage about 4 times ...
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MSA20 RAID5 recovery failure due to URE on another disk
I have MSA20 with one disk array on 12 disks and 3 LUNs on it (each raid 5). A few days ago one disk in one of the LUNs was failed and I replaced it. But raid5 recovering failed at 13% and I see in ...
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Linear Performance Scalability with HP San Solutions
I need a San Solution with linear scalability in size as well as in performance.
From what I know, with a Modular Smart Array solution such as the P2000/MSA-class solutions from HP, even with a dual ...
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Combining Dell MD SAN with HP MSA60 DSA?
Would it be possible to combine a Dell MD SAN with a HP MSA60 DSA, or am I forced to use it with other HP StorageWorks products?
The MSA60 spec reads:
Storage expansion: Supports 1+3 cascading off ...
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Rebuilding a SAN
Because of a mistake in adding disks earlier, I am going to rebuild my SAN. It is an HP MSA2000, and I am using 2 Windows Server 2008 servers in a cluster.
Please review my plan and let me know if I ...
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HP MSA2000 Disk Expansion
We have a MSA2000. We had 7 146gb disks in them Raid 5. Created 1 virtual disk and I had 5 volumes. All 5 volumes added up to be around 817gb or so. Our "Data" folder was 805GB.
Recently we ...
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