topic Re: rx2660 Internal RAID configuration in Integrity Servers

rx2660 Internal RAID configuration

A.W.R — Mon, 11 May 2009 13:07:43 GMT

Hi,

I have an rx2660 with OpenVMS, and the internal core 8 port Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) host bus adapter. This controller supports up to two internal RAID 1 volumes (2×2 HDDs). What utility do I use to configure this controller?

Thanks
Andrew

Re: rx2660 Internal RAID configuration

Bill Hall — Mon, 11 May 2009 13:37:48 GMT

Andrew,

$ RUN SYS$SYSTEM:SAS$UTIL

Take a look at the "HP OpenVMS System Management Utilities Reference Manual" for "SAS Utility" for detailed information on it's usage. Usage seems to be the same or similar to the MSA$UTIL.

Bill

Re: rx2660 Internal RAID configuration

Hoff — Mon, 11 May 2009 13:56:43 GMT

The RAID array storage controller manual(s) for the various HP Smart Array controllers (and a pile of other related information) is posted at the rx2660 series documentation web site.

Apologies on the following HP URL:

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DocumentIndex.jsp?contentType=SupportManual〈=en&cc=us&docIndexId=64180&taskId=101&prodTypeId=15351&prodSeriesId=3346452

Or toss "HP Smart Array Controllers for Integrity Servers User Guide" or "rx2660 manuals" at Google or your own preferred search engine, and have at.

The following is probably the manual you want:

http://bizsupport2.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c00852569/c00852569.pdf

There are a couple of different RAID controllers, and there are various ways to configure them.

Re: rx2660 Internal RAID configuration

Gokul Chandola — Thu, 14 May 2009 09:11:47 GMT

This is upto you sir...
What RAID you want to configure RAID0, RAID1 or RAID5 / or both.
There is option available in BIAS setting.

This all will depends on Media Security or Space Availability.

Regards,
Gokul Chandola

Re: rx2660 Internal RAID configuration

A.W.R — Thu, 14 May 2009 10:50:43 GMT

Hi,

Thank you for your responses.

This is for an the internal core 8 port Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) host bus adapter, not a SMART array.Is there a manual that explains this configuration?

Thanks
Andrew

Re: rx2660 Internal RAID configuration

Paul Herde — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:12:09 GMT

Don't know if you ever got a reply, but the manual you are interested in is J6369-90071.pdf.
Bsically, boot into the EFI and type drvcfg -s

Re: rx2660 Internal RAID configuration

Torsten. — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:21:26 GMT

Basically, boot to EFI shell and do

Shell> drivers
T D
D Y C I
R P F A
V VERSION E G G #D #C DRIVER NAME IMAGE NAME
== ======== = = = == == =================================== ===================
15 00000020 B - - 5 14 PCI Bus Driver PciBus
1B 03050100 B X X 1 1 LSI Logic Fusion MPT SAS Driver PciROM:01:01:00:001
...

Shell> drvcfg -s 1b

(1b is taken from the output above)

From here you can select the disks and create the RAID - data will be lost!

Re: rx2660 Internal RAID configuration

luca_64 — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 08:49:28 GMT

Hello,

I've tried everything but no way to access the RAID configuration.

SAUPDATE LIST: no raid controller found

DRVCFG -s 20 21: I get the controller configuration screen but when I press enter to configure it, EFI shell restart.

Any idea?

Thanks.

Re: rx2660 Internal RAID configuration

Bill Hassell — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 02:27:39 GMT

The RAID controller is optional. You probably do not have that board installed.

Here is the HP Quickspec for the rx2660:
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/archives_canada/12698_ca_v5/12698_ca.pdf