topic Re: Merging 2 controllers in one (Logically) in HPE ProLiant Servers (ML,DL,SL)

Merging 2 controllers in one (Logically)

Rashid Iqbal Ghulam — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:01:18 GMT

I have ProLiant ML370 G5 server.
1. 300 GB with 10K x 8 HDDS on Smart Array 5i Plus Controller.
2. 300 GB with 10K x 8 HDDS on Smart Array 5i Plus Controller.
So total 16HDDs on two different controllers.
How I can merge 2 controller as one to have all 16 HDDs on it.
Please reply if anyone have idea?

Re: Merging 2 controllers in one (Logically)

TTr — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:18:54 GMT

You can not. The two controllers are separate independent sybsystems. What is it that you are trying to achieve?

Re: Merging 2 controllers in one (Logically)

Patrick Terlisten — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:36:22 GMT

Hello,

you can merge two logical drives to one logical drive. What you can do is to stripe or concate this two logical drives under you operating system.

Best regards,
Patrick

Re: Merging 2 controllers in one (Logically)

Rashid Iqbal Ghulam — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:57:09 GMT

Thanks patrik for your kind reply....
I'm still confused.
I need to merge 8 hdds from array controller to other 8 hdds on another array controller.

Regard

Re: Merging 2 controllers in one (Logically)

Rashid Iqbal Ghulam — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 06:00:47 GMT

Hi TTr
I can do that merging 1 array controller into the other one but I don't know how to do that. It is required by the ownership.

Re: Merging 2 controllers in one (Logically)

Patrick Terlisten — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 06:07:47 GMT

Hello,

you can't merge those two logical drives to one drive, so that it seems to by one logical drive for the operating system. What you can do use a logical volume manager running under your OS to build one disk out of this two logical drives. There is no other way to solve your problem. The controller can't do this for you.

Best regards,
Patrick