RAID controller

[Alexander Polishchuk]

Hello,

I'd like to know what HP or third party PCI RAID controllers are supported by HPUX 11.11 or later on J5000. Also, where can I get drivers for it.

Thank you in advance,

Alex.

[Zygmunt Krawczyk · Accepted solution]

Hi,

the following PCI RAID controllers are supported on HP-UX 11.11:

A5856A RAID 4Si
http://www.hp.com/products1/serverconnectivity/storagesnf2/adapter14/specifications/index.html

driver:
http://www.software.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=A5856A

A7143A PCI 4-channel RAID160 SA SCSI controller
http://www.hp.com/products1/serverconnectivity/storagesnf2/raid160/specifications/index.html

driver:
http://www.software.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=A7143A

A9890A PCI-X 2-channel RAID320 controller
http://www.hp.com/products1/serverconnectivity/storagesnf2/raid160/specifications/index.html

driver:
http://www.software.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=A9890A

Installing RAID adapters in J5000 is not supported, but can work :)

Regards,
Zygmunt

[Zygmunt Krawczyk]

Hi Alex,
if you want a supported RAID solution on J5000 you can buy a PCI FC controller A6795A and msa1000 disk array. A6795A FC controller is supported on J5000, see doc:
http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/pdf/J6374-90014.pdf
page 27

msa1000 is external disk array and is very cheap. see link:
http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storageworks/msa1000/index.html

Regards,
Zygmunt

[Leif Halvarsson_2]

Hi,

If you are interested in third party RAID controllers you should look for external RAID controllers, I don't belive there is any 3-party internal RAID controller that will work with HP-UX.

There is several vendors of such cheap "OS-independent" RAID controllers on the market, ex:
http://www.easyraid.com
http://www.fibrenetix.com

HP-UX will see a such device just as any ordinary SCSI disk and don't need any propritary driver to use it.

[e4services]

Or Adaptec, since they are supplting to HP now