topic Re: StorageWorks VA 7410 in Disk Enclosures

StorageWorks VA 7410

f. halili — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 00:56:10 GMT

On a system with StorageWorks VA 7410. How can I check how much of the storage are used, how much is free? What are the basic checks to see that all are working? THANKS. - f.halili

Re: StorageWorks VA 7410

Ranjith_5 — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 01:09:34 GMT

Hi halili,

do the following

#armdsp -i

this will give you the serial number of the array

after this do

#armdsp -a

this will give you all the information including capacity used.

Method 2:-
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on the HP-CDE issue the command

#launcher

this will enable the gui based interface for VA.ie; command view SDM.

Go to status then go to capacity. You will get a pie chart showing the capacity llocation

regards,
Syam

Re: StorageWorks VA 7410

Bharat Katkar — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 01:11:53 GMT

Hi,
You can install Storage Device Manager (SDM) and launch this through SAM. You be able to monitor the status of VA7410 and its functionality as well as performance.

For monitoring usage you can simply use "bdf" command.
# bdf

EMS also a best montioring tool. You can view the EMS logs for details.

Hope that helps,
Regards,

Re: StorageWorks VA 7410

Ranjith_5 — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 01:15:57 GMT

Hi Halili,

in the output of
#armdsp -a

go to the location CAPACITY USAGE.

this will give you something like following:
and hope that is what you want.

CAPACITY USAGE

Total Disk Enclosures:________________6

Redundancy Group:_____________________1
Total Disks:________________________47
Total Physical Size:________________2.966 TB
Allocated to Regular LUNs:__________1.538 TB
Allocated as Business Copies:_______0 bytes
Used as Active Hot Spare:___________133.507 GB
Used for Redundancy:________________370.767 GB
Unallocated (Available for LUNs):___958.167 GB

Redundancy Group:_____________________2
Total Disks:________________________42
Total Physical Size:________________2.64 TB
Allocated to Regular LUNs:__________1.24 TB
Allocated as Business Copies:_______0 bytes
Used as Active Hot Spare:___________133.507 GB
Used for Redundancy:________________335.486 GB
Unallocated (Available for LUNs):___964.671 G

#armdsp -a #armdsp -a

gives all the information about the array in the component level.You can see that all the components are working from this command.

Hope this helps.

regards,
Syam

Re: StorageWorks VA 7410

Nguyen Anh Tien — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 01:59:08 GMT

#armdsp array_id
For example:
[ipcasbs:/] armdsp BDC_VA

Vendor ID:______________________________HP
Product ID:_____________________________A6189A
Array World Wide Name:__________________50060b000014e861
Array Serial Number:____________________00SG232J0001
Alias:__________________________________BDC_VA
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ARRAY INFORMATION

Array Status:_________________________Ready
Firmware Revision:____________________38370HP19P1031031142
Product Revision:_____________________HP19

CAPACITY USAGE

Total Disk Enclosures:________________2

Redundancy Group:_____________________1
Total Disks:________________________10
Total Physical Size:________________333.786 GB
Allocated to Regular LUNs:__________215.097 GB
Allocated as Business Copies:_______0 bytes
Used as Active Hot Spare:___________33.375 GB
Used for Redundancy:________________85.03 GB
Unallocated (Available for LUNs):___290 MB

Redundancy Group:_____________________2
Total Disks:________________________8
Total Physical Size:________________267.028 GB
Allocated to Regular LUNs:__________150 GB
Allocated as Business Copies:_______0 bytes
Used as Active Hot Spare:___________33.375 GB
Used for Redundancy:________________74.249 GB
Unallocated (Available for LUNs):___9.404 GB

WARNINGS

None
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All space in "Unallocated (Available for LUNs)" are free. You can create LUN on it.

another things you should consider:
LUN is term of VA. On OS it is pv. Before creating new LUN. check how much PE free on vg that contains LUN. If possible let create lv on that vg.
Best regard
tienna

Re: StorageWorks VA 7410

Hoang Chi Cong_1 — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 02:19:12 GMT

Hi f. halili

OK, the most popular is by using Command View SDM because it is visible and you can see it in graphic mode (Of course you must run it in Xwindows). Just run command:
#export DISPLAY=:0.0
#launcher &

Or you can use CLI to view the VA's information.

For more detail, you can type #armdsp -?
Anyway, you can check all of the capacities usage with armdsp -a -r
Then search for this key word: CAPACITY USAGE
To check alias name, you can use armdsp -i to discover and Display the product number, serial number, alias name, unique name, World Wide Name, and device path of all disk arrays connected to the specified host

Hope this helps
Regard,
HoangChiCong

Re: StorageWorks VA 7410

f. halili — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 20:12:37 GMT

Any suggestions on a good documentation in managing VA 7410

Re: StorageWorks VA 7410

Ranjith_5 — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 22:30:04 GMT

Good Morning Halili,

See the following info @ HP Offical website.

VA7410 Frequently Asked Questions:-
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http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DocumentIndex.jsp?contentType=SupportFAQ&locale=en_US&docIndexId=180006&taskId=101&prodTypeId=12169&prodSeriesId=89018

VA7410 Technical Documentation:-
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http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DocumentIndex.jsp?contentType=SupportManual&locale=en_US&docIndexId=179911&taskId=101&prodTypeId=12169&prodSeriesId=89018

VA7410 Specifications:-
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http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=lpg64122&locale=en_US&taskId=101&prodSeriesId=89018&prodTypeId=12169

Hope This helps.
regards,
Syam

Re: StorageWorks VA 7410

Hoang Chi Cong_1 — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 22:59:04 GMT

Hi
This link is contain everthing related about VA7410 series...

http://www.hp.com/support/va7410
And the link:"frequently asked questions " is very useful in some case :):)
Goodluck to you.
Best and regard,
HoangChiCong