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тАО09-26-2006 02:57 AM
тАО09-26-2006 02:57 AM
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тАО09-26-2006 05:25 AM
тАО09-26-2006 05:25 AM
Re: Help Setting up VA7100 with L3000 RAID 1+0
1. For managing VA7100 you need command view SDM to be installed. This will give command line option as well as graphical web interface.
2.you can't have mutiple raid levels in the VA. it han be either set as of autoraid or raid 1 +0.
3.You may require minium 4 disk to have raid 1+0 . but preferably 5 disk will good where one can provide as hotspare.
4. you can create 36GB if you have 4 x 18 Gb.
regards
Manoharan
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тАО09-26-2006 05:33 AM
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Re: Help Setting up VA7100 with L3000 RAID 1+0
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тАО09-26-2006 12:45 PM
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Re: Help Setting up VA7100 with L3000 RAID 1+0
# mgr -B raid1
This would set the RAID 1+0 as the striping (RAID 0) is implicit when you select raid1 on this array.
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тАО09-27-2006 01:43 AM
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Re: Help Setting up VA7100 with L3000 RAID 1+0
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тАО09-27-2006 04:31 AM
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Re: Help Setting up VA7100 with L3000 RAID 1+0
If you have installed command view SDM. you can run command following command which will give you clear picture and understanding about the status of the array.
armdsp -i ==> this will give array details
armdsp -a
in that out put you can see what is the maximum size of lun you can create.
thanks and regards
Mano
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тАО09-28-2006 12:29 AM
тАО09-28-2006 12:29 AM
SolutionWe have a VA7110 and previously a VA7100 before that. In both instances the 'armdsp -i' command failed to produce any results, the following was what I had to do after I had installed Command View SDM software. Just for the record it is a direct attach to an rx2620 with two x2 fibre channal controllers.
(a hash represents the start of the command)
search for any arrays
# armdiscover
format the disk pack
# armfmt -f -h
show the array summary
# armdsp -i
show the array detailed summary
# armdsp -a
If the previous armdsp -a does not work (which happened in our case) then the following two commands had to be issued.
# HA_Dial_Stop
# HA_Dial_Start
The 'armdsp' commands should now work.
As a hangover from the FC-60 disk arrays I always create a LUN 0 of minimal amount and never use it, however, this I believe may be personal preferance, as I like to have the LUN's number match with the VG number, hence LUN 1 is VG01. As VG00 is internal disk, LUN 0 has been created but is minimal.
To create your new LUN then the following commands can be used, I will assume that you do not want to reboot, and that LUN 1 will be created with 36GB size and will be used as vg01.
By the way as a general rule I have heard but cannot comment on is that the VA arrays work fine as long as you do not use all of the available space. This is the way in which AutoRAID use the free space to reorganise the data.
Here are the commnands ....
# armcfg -L 1 -a 36G -g 1
# ioscan -fn
# insf -e
# pvcreate /dev/rdsk/
# cd /dev
# mkdir vg01
# cd vg01
# mknod group c 64 0x010000
# vgcreate /dev/vg01 /dev/dsk/
If you have an alternate link then do the following....
# vgextend /dev/vg01 /dev/dsk/
Hope that helps
Mike.
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тАО09-28-2006 02:22 AM
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Re: Help Setting up VA7100 with L3000 RAID 1+0
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тАО09-28-2006 03:13 AM
тАО09-28-2006 03:13 AM
Re: Help Setting up VA7100 with L3000 RAID 1+0
The only differences I have come across is more cache memory for the VA7110, double the previous max for the VA7100, and triple the disk spindle capacity, 3 drive trays of 15 disks in each, rather than the limit of 15 disks on one tray for the VA7100. Obviously the VA7100's will command a lower price than the newer VA7110.
Both units still use the same Command View software as well as sharing many other features.
Point worthy of note for the AutoRAID followers, the VA7110 and VA7410 are the last arrays to support AutoRAID. Though rumour has it that the technology will be back in a future generation of disk array.
Mike.
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тАО09-28-2006 03:39 AM
тАО09-28-2006 03:39 AM
Re: Help Setting up VA7100 with L3000 RAID 1+0
Mike is correct and apart from that 7110 got 2 redundant groups which makes it possible for load balancing with both the controllers ie active/active where is in 7100 the controllers works in active passive mode.
regards
Mano.