Hello.
Sorry for my English, but I will try to be clear.
I need to install two new disks in HP2000 G3. At the time of installation, the green indicator lights up and flashes, but after a few seconds they turn off and the orange light starts to glow steadily.
At this time the message appears in the logs:
In the menu "Physical" - "Enclosure 1" (SPS-CHASSIS) in the tab of the graphic display of the disk does not appear, as well as in the Front Tabular tab. And P2000 works as if there are no new disks installed.
I re-read the manual 2 times, google for three days, but I still cannot understand what I am doing wrong.
I would be grateful for any suggestions.
What is the Controller firmware version in this P2000?
you can check from CLI by running command,
show versions
Do you have any other free slot in this MSA? Then you can put this new drive in any other free slot and check if same behavior repeats or not? This will tell you if the new drive DOA or Good one.
How many Vdisk created in this MSA?
If all Vdisks in FTOL state, you have no other free slot and you have only one new drive then you can plan for downtime, stop Host IO. Shutdown MSA. Remove one good drive part of the Vdisk and place it to the same slot where you were trying to put the new drive. Then power up the MSA and check both from CLI and SMU if the drive detected or not? This is just to verify whether this is slot issue or drive issue.
Hope this helps!
Regards
Subhajit
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It's good to always running latest firmware in terms of any component of the MSA. Please find the link to get the same,
www.hpe.com/storage/MSAFirmware
www.hpe.com/storage/DiskEnclosureFirmware
Regarding drive detection, you need to make sure you are using HPE supported drives and HPE drive firmware updated. Please find the link to check if the new drives supported or not,
https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-c04315770&lang=en-us&cc=us
If both new drives not detected in any of the drive slots then high chance that they are not HPE supported drives. Otherwise it's impossible that more than one slot of the Chassis is faulty.
Hope this helps!
Regards
Subhajit
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Hello,
You are correct in the fact your array firmware is old but that is likely not the issue. You should still update the array firmware to the latest version TS252P005.
All of your vdisks are FTIL (Fault Tolerant Online) so the new drives are not needed as spares for rebuilding.
Can you tell us what kind of drives you are trying to install? You would need to look at the physical drive and provide the drive type, size, and part number. If these drives are not HPE drives then the array will not recognize the drive since it likely does not have a drive firmware version that is compatable with the array.
Did you buy the drives from HPE?
Cheers,
Shawn
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