topic Adding Disk on MSA30 with Smart Array 6402 Controller in Disk Enclosures

Adding Disk on MSA30 with Smart Array 6402 Controller

AwadheshPandey — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 04:00:58 GMT

Hello Experts,

I want to a disk on logical drive 0 and logical drive 1 on my MSA30, running on HP-UX 11i with Smart Array 6402 contoller. Here is saconfig o/p.

******************** SmartArray RAID Controller /dev/ciss5 ********************

---------- PHYSICAL DRIVES ----------

Location Ch ID Size Status

External 1 0 72.8 GB OK
External 1 1 72.8 GB OK
External 1 2 72.8 GB OK
External 1 3 72.8 GB OK
External 1 4 72.8 GB OK
External 1 5 72.8 GB OK
External 1 8 72.8 GB OK
External 1 9 72.8 GB OK

---------- LOGICAL DRIVE 0 ----------

RAID Level = 5
Size = 347295 MB
Stripe Size = 16 KB
Status = OK

Participating Physical Drive(s):

Ch ID

1 0
1 1
1 2
1 3
1 4
1 5

Participating Spare Drive(s):

None

---------- LOGICAL DRIVE 1 ----------

RAID Level = 0
Size = 138920 MB
Stripe Size = 128 KB
Status = OK

Participating Physical Drive(s):

Ch ID

1 8
1 9

Participating Spare Drive(s):

None.

Pls let me know the procedure to do this.

Regards,

Awadhesh

Re: Adding Disk on MSA30 with Smart Array 6402 Controller

Luk Vandenbussche — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 05:15:56 GMT

Hi,

Here you find the manuals of your raid controller under hpux

http://docs.hp.com/en/A9890-96012/A9890-96012.pdf

http://docs.hp.com/en/J6369-90025/J6369-90025.pdf

Re: Adding Disk on MSA30 with Smart Array 6402 Controller

AwadheshPandey — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 07:41:55 GMT

Luk,

Thanks for Reply, can you give me step by step procedure for this.

Regards,

Awadhesh

Re: Adding Disk on MSA30 with Smart Array 6402 Controller

Luk Vandenbussche — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 08:11:04 GMT

Hi,

HPUX doesn't support increase of LUNs.
So you have two solutions

1) Back your data, create a bigger lun, restore your data
2) Create a LUN 2 on your controller, which you can add to your VG