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тАО06-20-2006 07:08 AM
тАО06-20-2006 07:08 AM
I have EVA 8000 in production.It is running in very stable state and it is in live production. I have ordered 6 new disk Enclosures and 60 more drives. This will make this EVA 2C12D. Does anybody has experience with this situation ? I can not shut down EVA. Can I do this on live or I will have absolutely shut it down anyways. And also how should I deal with maintaing good RSS state. ? as I am putting 60 more drives. Do you have any white paper or document detailing this scenario..Please help me...Any suggestion is apperciated..
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Hgor
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тАО06-20-2006 07:55 AM
тАО06-20-2006 07:55 AM
SolutionPlaying with the RSS state is kind of 'black art'. So far I have not found any helpful hints in the official product documentation. As long as you only use VRAID-1 virtual disks, you are fine with an RSS state of "mirrored".
In case you use VRAID-5 Vdisks and you want to obtain a "parity" state, I am afraid you have to physically move disk drives around as the controller firmware does not have that functionality and I doubt that group/ungroup operations will help.
The usual way to deal with such a situation is to:
- plan the new physical layout
- ensure a full backup has been made
- shutdown the array
- move the disk drives
- power up again
- verify the array
It is also possible to increase the disk failure timeout and move single drives while the array is operating, but this will cause many errors and, I think, not 'supported' by HP.
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тАО06-20-2006 08:13 AM
тАО06-20-2006 08:13 AM
Re: Want to Add ^ news Disk Shelves to existing 2C6D EVA 8000
you suggested in steps to power down .and then in last power up again. Is it absolutely required to power down? I mean Can I achieve my needs without powering down? And What if I will include all new drives in the old default Disk Group where I have all previous drives ? Willl it reallocate all the data in a proper RSS pattern automatically across all 12 shelves or not ? And also if I will put all new drives in NEW Disk Group what will be the outcome ?
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тАО06-20-2006 09:16 AM
тАО06-20-2006 09:16 AM
Re: Want to Add ^ news Disk Shelves to existing 2C6D EVA 8000
The only think you will not be able to do easily is move your disks arounds. Shutting the EVA down allows you to move the old disks so that your existing RSS's are spread across the new shelves as well, not just the old ones.
You can easily include the new drives into the existing Disk Group, but they will just be added to the mix, the controllers will not automatically move older rss members to new disks and move data appropiately.
In a new group, you will be limited to those 6 shelves, unless you have some extra drive slots to utilize on the original 6 shelves.
To "hot" add the shelves...
1. Install the shelves into the rack, wire them up but do NOT plug them into the fibre loop switches.
2. Popluate with drives while NOT connected to the backend.
3. When ready, connect one shelf at a time, checking in Command View that everything comes up fine. Waita few minutes before connecting the next shelf.
Alternative method...
1. Install all shelves like above.
2. Plug them into the backend, one at a time, checking CV for problems.
3. Install drives... 1 at a time, waiting 60 to 90 seconds or more between each drive insertion.
4. Once all done, check CV for new hardware/drives.
Adding the new disks into the 6 new shelves "should" allow you to keep your current rss state, which should be "mirrored".
Steven
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тАО06-20-2006 09:49 AM
тАО06-20-2006 09:49 AM
Re: Want to Add ^ news Disk Shelves to existing 2C6D EVA 8000
As you told in last alternate method , adding one drive and waiting like 2 mnts before you put second , will fix my problem ? I mean my current RSS state will re distribute across new 6 selves also ? OR onlt the new drive will get even distribution but RSS for old drives will still remain in orginal 6 shelves ??
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тАО06-20-2006 10:11 AM
тАО06-20-2006 10:11 AM
Re: Want to Add ^ news Disk Shelves to existing 2C6D EVA 8000
2nd, unless you manually move existing disks, the controllers will NOT swap ezisting rss members to the new shelves. Your new disks WILL be properly distributed for rss purposes though.
So yes... Current RSS will remain the same and the new disks will be distributed as best possible.
The only instance where an existing RSS MAY get re-distributed is if there is an "off" number of disks. If you have a RSS with 6 or 7 or 9, 10 or 11 disks... adding disks to the Disk group may force it to split and possible utilize the new shelves. Only this one RSS set will do this.
Steven
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тАО06-20-2006 07:22 PM
тАО06-20-2006 07:22 PM
Re: Want to Add ^ news Disk Shelves to existing 2C6D EVA 8000
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тАО06-21-2006 03:44 AM
тАО06-21-2006 03:44 AM
Re: Want to Add ^ news Disk Shelves to existing 2C6D EVA 8000
Sure that would be better . But anyways unless and untill I will move my existing drives , physically over new sheleves , I am not gonna get optimal RSS anyways...am I right ?
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тАО06-21-2006 05:07 AM
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