topic Re: msa2012i in Disk Enclosures

msa2012i

PinoGiuseppe — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 11:32:25 GMT

Goodmorning ,

I have a msa2012i single controller with two virtual disks.

- The A virtual disks with 5 HD 300GB SAS raid 5 with three volumes.

- The B virtual disks with 4 HD 300GB SAS raid 10 with two volumes.

I would add two disks to 300 GB or larger the A virtual disk.

I can expand the A virtual disk and then expand one of the three volumes?

all without losing data.

thanks

Johan Guldmyr — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 18:16:00 GMT

Hi, you can expand, but I am unsure if there are restrictions to it.

Note that it takes 15min/GB to do an expansion. Or 150 hours for 2x300GB.

PinoGiuseppe — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:32:20 GMT

thanks for you replay.

msa mount the 300 GB SAS disks ten the two logical volumes.

my question is as follows:

1) I can add drives of larger capacity and form a differentlogical volume?

2) the same server I could have two iscsi connections that link to two different logical volumes on the same MSA?

thanks

Johan Guldmyr — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:33:38 GMT

1) I can add drives of larger capacity and form a differentlogical volume?

>> you can add larger disks and create another vdisk, in that you can create more volumes

2) the same server I could have two iscsi connections that link to two different logical volumes on the same MSA?

>> logical volumes are not tied to a physical ethernet port.

PinoGiuseppe — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:27:36 GMT

thanks for the answer,
but I understand if I can have multiple connections iscsi from the same server
Thanks

PinoGiuseppe — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 11:01:16 GMT

Please
help me
thanks for the answer,
but I understand if I can have multiple connections iscsi from the same server
Thanks

Johan Guldmyr — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 11:06:28 GMT

What is your question?

You can connect the same server to several iSCSI targets.