Server Fault Stack Exchange
Server Fault Stack Exchange

Questions tagged [hp-storageworks]

27 questions
10
votes
1 answer

Configuration for a two machine ESXi cluster using VSA to present local storage to VMs

I'm designing a little vSphere 5 cluster for one of our remote sites. We have some IBM x3650s that have 6x 300GB 10K RPM drives in them, along with dual quad core CPUs and 24GB RAM. Because we use HP P4500 G2s at our primary site, we have licenses…
MDMarra
  • 100,183
  • 32
  • 195
  • 326
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…
John 'Shuey' Schuepbach
  • 303
  • 2
  • 9
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…
JohnnyBurst
  • 53
  • 3
5
votes
1 answer

HP Ultrium 1840 LTO-4 slow write speeds

I have an HP StorageWorks Ultrium 1840 LTO-4 external tape drive attached to a machine running Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS (kernel 4.15.0-99-generic) using an LSI20320IE PCI-X x4 SCSI adaptor with a VHDCI to HD cable. Writing to the tape drive is slow and…
Richard
  • 53
  • 3
4
votes
1 answer

RAID 5 array not working after disk replacement?

We have an HP StorageWorks server with HP Smart Array P212. It has 2 SAS array configurations. Logical drive 1 which is a RAID 1 configuration Logical drive 2 which is a RAID 5 configuration One of the drives in the RAID 5 configuration failed…
Tom
  • 43
  • 2
4
votes
1 answer

Driving an HP Storage Array From a non-HP Server

I currently have an HP DL360-G7 server with a P411 SAS controller connected to an HP Storageworks D2600 storage array. The server boots VmWare ESXi 4.1 from its own drives (not from drives in the D2600). The storage array holds a number of VmWare…
Linker3000
  • 668
  • 1
  • 5
  • 14
3
votes
2 answers

Smart Array P822 with HBA Mode?

We get an HP DL360 G8 with an Smart Array P822 controller. On that controller will come a HP StorageWorks D2700. Does anybody know, that it is possible to run the Smart Array P822 in HBA mode? I found only information about the P410i, who can run…
jb_alvarado
  • 130
  • 2
  • 10
2
votes
1 answer

HP Storageworks MSA60

I have an HP DL380 G5 with ESXi installed on a local RAID (146x3 RAID1) and it has attached an MSA60 storage. The server has issues so I will replace it with an identical machine. I know I will probably lose the local raid but what about the MSA60?…
user776720
  • 197
  • 3
  • 12
2
votes
2 answers

HP StorageWorks P4500 G2 Manager Management

According to the documentation, a management group should have an odd number of managers greater than 1. I have a four node SAN consisting of P4500 G2s. I plan on having two clusters with two nodes each in this management group,…
MDMarra
  • 100,183
  • 32
  • 195
  • 326
1
vote
0 answers

Storageworks DAT 40 Drive Stuck, All Lights On and Not Responsive on Boot

Let me start by stating that I'm something of an amateur forced to deal with an unfamiliar matter, so sorry in advance if there's something trivial I've missed that should've been done in my description... To make an insanely long story short as…
Arch121
  • 11
  • 1
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…
Nasa
  • 19
  • 1
1
vote
1 answer

HP Storageworks disk not recognised

I have inherited an out of warranty HP StorageWorks X1600 G2 SAN with non-genuine HDDs (3T Seagate). A disk is showing as amber and the 'Array Configuration Utility' says the disk is 'bad or missing'. I have replaced the bad Seagate with another…
Hammer
  • 39
  • 4
1
vote
1 answer

New RAID1+0 in P2000 storage

I have P2000 SAS storage with RAID6 configured on 8 disks 1TB 7k2rpm. I want to add RAID1+0 with 4 SAS15K 300GB. The question is, does this storage support this setup? Should it work without any difficulties with 2 RAID types? Thanks.
John
  • 1,483
  • 2
  • 26
  • 45
1
vote
1 answer

Windows 2012 Cluster on P6300 SCSI-3 Persistent Reservation issues

Scenario: 1 HP 6300 with latest XCS version 1 Command View 10.1 + with hosts defined as Windows 2008 2 BL460c Gen8 Servers with SPP 2012.10 and Windows Server 2012 Datacenter Edition with all the updates + MPIO feature enabled DSM v4.03.00 Cluster…
Bruno J. Melo
  • 21
  • 1
  • 4
1
vote
1 answer

MSA30 Linux CLI Configuration?

Can some one help me shed some light on this please? I have a MSA30 hooked up to a HP Proliant DL380 G4 running SuSE SLES Linux. My question is how do I configure the hard drives connected to be in a JBOD setup. Would this be with hpacucli or though…
Ben
  • 11
  • 1
1
2