topic Re: EVA8100 vdisk configuration in HPE EVA Storage

EVA8100 vdisk configuration

GregK1 — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 18:21:46 GMT

I recently obtained a StorageWorks EVA 8100 unit from another department, which we are planning on integrating into our existing storage infrastructure that consists of 2 smaller EVA units. The problem that I have run into is that I am limited in the size of vdisk I can create (2TB limit). I do not have this issue on the evisting EVA units.

The EVA8100 is running the XCS 6.25 firmware and is being managed through CommandView 10.3. I am running CommandView on the 60-day Instant-On license while I evaluate if this particular harware will integrate effectively into our infrastructure, but do not want to deal with the expense if it will not help the issue.

Has anyone else run into this issue, and have you been able to have a vdisk created that is larger than 2047GB? I am looking to configure a vdisk of at least 20TB on this particular EVA to match with what is in use on the existng EVAs.

Re: EVA8100 vdisk configuration

Torsten. — Fri, 09 Jun 2017 06:44:25 GMT

see

http://h20564.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=mmr_kc-0123930

AFAIR there was no enhanced disk group support for this array model.

Re: EVA8100 vdisk configuration

Sheldon Smith — Tue, 13 Jun 2017 14:43:52 GMT

No. The EVA 8100 does not support 'Large LUNs'. 2TB is the maximum.

See https://h20565.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?sp4ts.oid=471497&docId=emr_na-c04790820&docLocale=en_US -- Table 6.1 Supported array features by controller software version