topic Re: rx6600 RAID problem in Integrity Servers

rx6600 RAID problem

rufat — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 05:31:57 GMT

Hi!
I"ve hp rx6600 integrity server. It has 2x72gb and 3x146gb hard disks. I want to create RAID but with HP smart Setup CD version 5.5.1 it can see only 2 hard drives - one 72gb and one 146gb.
Please, can you tell me how to create RAID on this RX6600?

Re: rx6600 RAID problem

AnthonySN — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 07:27:55 GMT

when you boot the server there will be an option to press f8 to create raid, if you are on a management console you can press shift f8

Re: rx6600 RAID problem

Torsten. — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 10:12:42 GMT

Does it run hp-ux?

Please post "ioscan -fn".

RAID creation depends on the used disk controller (SAS vs. smartarray).

Re: rx6600 RAID problem

rufat — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 10:27:43 GMT

There's no F8 option during reboot.

There was HP-UX system, i want to install Centos, but first to create RAID.

Re: rx6600 RAID problem

Torsten. — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 10:39:26 GMT

So please post

EFI> devtree

EFI> devices

and let us see.

Re: rx6600 RAID problem

rufat — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 10:53:01 GMT

this command show me that i have sas controller

Re: rx6600 RAID problem

Torsten. — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 11:05:54 GMT

You *always* have that sas controller, but maybe an optional P400 or similar smartarray controller.

However, you need to get the driver number from "drivers" command and use for example

drvcfg -s 22

to get into the configuration menu.

Re: rx6600 RAID problem

rufat — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 04:45:12 GMT

Hi, i installed HP-UX v11 on rx6600.
Before the instalation i unpluged 146 gb hard disks and left on server only 2 72 gb disks.
After the installation we have this result. Please tell me what does it show? Is there a RAID?
Thanks :)

Re: rx6600 RAID problem

Torsten. — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 05:10:48 GMT

Please attach

# ioscan -fn

as text.

Re: rx6600 RAID problem

rufat — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 05:28:19 GMT

I insert 5 146gb hard disks and restarted server. So now i"ve 2 72gb and 5 146gb hard disks. And here it is ioscan -fn command.
Thank you.

Re: rx6600 RAID problem

Torsten. — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 05:32:04 GMT

no ioscan attached.

Re: rx6600 RAID problem

rufat — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 05:37:53 GMT

Please scroll down.

Re: rx6600 RAID problem

Torsten. — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 05:39:07 GMT

No, this is a small part only, not complete!

Re: rx6600 RAID problem

rufat — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 05:50:13 GMT

Sorry for my mistake.
Hope this one.
Thanks!

Re: rx6600 RAID problem

Torsten. — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 05:53:52 GMT

Here we go

The default SAS controller:

ext_bus 9 0/4/1/0.0.0 sasd_vbus CLAIMED INTERFACE SAS Devic
e Interface

A mirrored logical disk (integrated RAID = IR Volume):

target 12 0/4/1/0.0.0.0 tgt CLAIMED DEVICE
disk 0 0/4/1/0.0.0.0.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE H
P IR Volume
/dev/dsk/c9t0d0 /dev/rdsk/c9t0d0
/dev/dsk/c9t0d0s1 /dev/rdsk/c9t0d0s1
/dev/dsk/c9t0d0s2 /dev/rdsk/c9t0d0s2
/dev/dsk/c9t0d0s3 /dev/rdsk/c9t0d0s3

another IR volume:

target 13 0/4/1/0.0.0.1 tgt CLAIMED DEVICE
disk 4 0/4/1/0.0.0.1.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE H
P IR Volume
/dev/dsk/c9t1d0 /dev/rdsk/c9t1d0
/dev/dsk/c9t1d0s1 /dev/rdsk/c9t1d0s1

and finally 3 "plain" disks:

target 10 0/4/1/0.0.0.2 tgt CLAIMED DEVICE
disk 6 0/4/1/0.0.0.2.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE H
P DG146ABAB4
/dev/dsk/c9t2d0 /dev/rdsk/c9t2d0
target 9 0/4/1/0.0.0.3 tgt CLAIMED DEVICE
disk 8 0/4/1/0.0.0.3.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE H
P DG146ABAB4
/dev/dsk/c9t3d0 /dev/rdsk/c9t3d0
target 11 0/4/1/0.0.0.4 tgt CLAIMED DEVICE
disk 10 0/4/1/0.0.0.4.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE H
P DG146ABAB4
/dev/dsk/c9t4d0 /dev/rdsk/c9t4d0

Re: rx6600 RAID problem

rufat — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 06:06:59 GMT

I"m sorry.
Does it mean that I"ve
2 72gb mirrored disks,
2 146gb mirrored disks,
3 146gb plain disks.

Re: rx6600 RAID problem

Torsten. — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 06:10:01 GMT

Get the details with

sasmgr get_info -D /dev/sasd1 -q raid

Re: rx6600 RAID problem

rufat — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 06:58:31 GMT

seems that there is 2 pair of mirrored disks and 3 plain disks.

Re: rx6600 RAID problem

Torsten. — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 07:01:44 GMT

Does it mean that I"ve
2 72gb mirrored disks,
2 146gb mirrored disks,
3 146gb plain disks.

Exactly.
From the output of sasmgr you also know the position of the disks (slot).

Re: rx6600 RAID problem

rufat — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 07:09:54 GMT

Thank you very much! :)