Questions tagged [hp-modular-smart-array]

35 questions
7
votes
2 answers

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 into the vSphere client, we noticed that none of…
5
votes
2 answers

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 touched since 2007. FUN! Given our need of storage…
3
votes
0 answers

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 or script, I dont see any cli command gives me…
Root Loop
  • 892
  • 4
  • 22
  • 44
3
votes
3 answers

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 understand it right I cant use the storage simultaneously.…
Jon
  • 167
  • 4
  • 15
3
votes
1 answer

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 highlighted is latency in the read/write speed to and from…
3
votes
1 answer

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 dropped offline. We rebooted the server (running…
NXTVoipguy
  • 31
  • 1
3
votes
1 answer

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 purchased qty 5 300gb disks to fill up the enclosure. …
jherlitz
  • 1,058
  • 1
  • 18
  • 25
2
votes
1 answer

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. There is an issue with mounting the array. I…
kitzin
  • 21
  • 1
2
votes
2 answers

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 to take the connection from the DAS -> SAS…
2
votes
2 answers

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 they say 1-8 bays in the drive documentation? Would…
2
votes
1 answer

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, etc.). And I've a 6th which I want to use as…
Trent
  • 133
  • 1
  • 3
1
vote
0 answers

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 checked the controller (p800) with MSA UTILITY, and…
1
vote
1 answer

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 through the web browser that used to work (Mozilla…
Mugurel
  • 873
  • 1
  • 8
  • 17
1
vote
1 answer

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 that has ran, all of the drives in the devices have…
hellbus
  • 13
  • 3
1
vote
3 answers

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 the IOPS for all vdisks. But this are values just…
1
2 3