Comments on: Beginners guide on how to setup HP MSA 2312sa Storage array

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:36:00 +0000

Excellent article, do you have any advice for multipathing on with ESX, should we configure the paths to use round robin as you do with the FC and iSCSI controllers?

By: BrianS

BrianS — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 19:51:00 +0000

I think your asking if you can assign your vDisks to another Windows server if the original one crashes.
In theory yes you can, but must be sure to only allow one Windows server to talk to the vDisks at a time to prevent corruption. But I would make sure you have good backups or test on non production servers first.

By: Felipe Sanchez

Felipe Sanchez — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 19:13:00 +0000

Hi, Great articles..!!!
I was searching for something similiar but not success yey.
I Have an HP MSA500 connected via SCSI to a Windows 2003 standard server.
I my server goes down, can I connect and reconfigure the RAIDS in another server without danger for all the data?

Thank you

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Running vSphere 4 on HP P2000 | Justin's IT Blog — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 20:50:37 +0000

[...] you are working with the SAS model check out this post over at virtualizetips.com. He has created a great setup guide for the SAS model, which can also be [...]

By: Justin Paul

Justin Paul — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 18:17:00 +0000

Thanks for mentioning my post. I havent gotten to work with the SAS model so I will be linking to your article as well!

Thanks again,
Justin
http://jpaul.me

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:21:00 +0000

Thanks for the write-up. It’s too bad you can’t easily find this info on HP’s own website.

By: BrianS

BrianS — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 02:54:56 +0000

Hello,
Raid1 is disk mirroring so it's only 2 disks that you configure. If you want more than 2 disks in a volume you must choose Raid 5 or 10 might be options for you.

By: Harman Sidhu

Harman Sidhu — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 19:25:12 +0000

Hi I am havin gproblems configuring the MSA to create a RAIDGroup (RAID 1) with 4 disks, I am only able to select 2 disks the other two are appearing as spares. Can you please help?

By: I added more disks to HP MSA 2300 series storage today | Virtualization Tips

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 01:35:55 +0000

[...] If you need to know more about how to setup these you can read my initial post on how to setup a HP MSA 2300 series array here. [...]

By: BrianS

BrianS — Tue, 11 May 2010 18:53:17 +0000

Hello,
Could you explain in more detail what you have done already? What type of connection are you using and have you assigned the volumes to the host?