Hardware RAID rx2660 with SCSI Ultra320 A7173A

[Torsten.]

This is the default 8 port SAS controller (/dev/sasd1).



This controller can do 2 pairs of mirrored disks, not more.


I would recommend to create 1 such pair for the OS.

On the remaining disks you can use LVM to mirror or just stripe.




From EFI do

Shell> drivers
...
1F 02010400 B X X 1 2 LSI Logic Fusion MPT SAS Driver PciROM:01:01:00:001
...

note the "1F" at the beginning of the line in this example.

Now do

Shell> drvcfg -s 1f

to configure (and use your value instead of "1F").

[Zinky]

http://bizsupport1.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c00752371/c00752371.pdf

[Zinky]

Here is how I set up mine:

3 disks are configured for RAID1 (Mirror + Hot spare) -- this serves as my Boot disk.

The other 5 I configure as a VxVM RAID5 volume (Software RAID)

# sasmgr get_info -D /dev/sasd0 -q raid

Mon Jan 24 12:20:18 2011

---------- PHYSICAL DRIVES ----------
LUN dsf SAS Address Enclosure Bay Size(MB)

/dev/rdsk/c2t0d0 0x5000c50006a13ddd 1 4 140014
/dev/rdsk/c2t1d0 0x5000c50006a0f9e5 1 5 140014
/dev/rdsk/c2t2d0 0x5000c50006a0b2d9 1 6 140014
/dev/rdsk/c2t3d0 0x5000c50006a10aa5 1 7 140014
/dev/rdsk/c2t4d0 0x5000c50006a0de79 1 8 140014

---------- LOGICAL DRIVE 7 ----------

Raid Level : RAID 1
Volume sas address : 0x30981eec1de1d0e
Device Special File : /dev/rdsk/c2t5d0
Raid State : OPTIMAL
Raid Status Flag : ENABLED
Raid Size : 139236
Rebuild Rate : 0.00 %
Rebuild Progress : 100.00 %

Participating Physical Drive(s) :

SAS Address Enc Bay Size(MB) Type State

0x5000c50006a1487d 1 2 140014 SECONDARY ONLINE
0x5000c50006a15ac5 1 1 140014 PRIMARY ONLINE


---------- GLOBAL SPARE DRIVES ----------
SAS Address Enc Bay Size(MB) Pool State

0x5000c50006a14351 1 3 140014 0 ACTIVE

[Ratzie]

As you can see, I do not have any internal RAID controllers...
Shell> drivers
T D
D Y C I
R P F A
V VERSION E G G #D #C DRIVER NAME IMAGE NAME
== ======== = = = == == =================================== ===================
15 00000020 B - - 5 14 PCI Bus Driver PciBus
20 03050100 B X X 1 8 LSI Logic Fusion MPT SAS Driver PciROM:01:01:00:001
24 01050400 D X X 1 - LSI Logic U320 SCSI Driver HP BUILD PciROM:02:01:01:000
25 01050400 D X X 1 - LSI Logic U320 SCSI Driver HP BUILD PciROM:02:01:00:000
28 01050400 D X X 1 - LSI Logic U320 SCSI Driver HP BUILD PciROM:04:01:01:000
29 01050400 D X X 1 - LSI Logic U320 SCSI Driver HP BUILD PciROM:04:01:00:000
2E 00000020 D X - 1 - Usb Keyboard Driver UsbKb
2F 00000020 ? - - - - Usb Mouse Driver UsbMouse
30 00000020 ? - - - - Usb Cbi0 Mass Storage Driver UsbCbi0
31 00000020 ? - - - - Usb Cbi1 Mass Storage Driver UsbCbi1
32 00000010 ? - - - - UGA Console Driver GraphicsConsole
33 00000000 D - - 1 - PCI VGA Mini Port Driver PciVgaMiniPort
34 00000010 D - - 1 - VGA Class Driver VgaClassDriver
35 00000013 B - - 1 1 Serial 16550 UART Driver Serial16550
36 00000010 B - - 1 1 Serial Terminal Driver Terminal
37 00000010 D - - 2 - Platform Console Management Driver ConPlatform
38 00000010 D - - 2 - Platform Console Management Driver ConPlatform
39 00000010 B - - 2 2 Console Splitter Driver ConSplitter
3A 00000010 ? - - - - Console Splitter Driver ConSplitter
3B 00000011 B - - 2 2 Console Splitter Driver ConSplitter
3C 00000011 B - - 2 2 Console Splitter Driver ConSplitter
40 00000040 D - - 2 - Usb Ohci Driver SysROM:Usb Ohci Dri
41 00000020 B - - 2 3 USB Bus Driver SysROM:USB Bus Driv
42 00000020 D - - 1 - Usb Bot Mass Storage Driver SysROM:USB Bot Mass
43 00000020 D - - 1 - Generic USB Mass Storage Driver SysROM:Generic USB
4C 00090404 B X X 2 2 Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet Driver SysROM:Broadcom Gig
4D 00000010 D - - 14 - Generic Disk I/O Driver DiskIo
4E 00000011 B - - 2 5 Partition Driver(MBR/GPT/El Torito) Partition
4F 00000010 D - - 3 - FAT File System Driver Fat
50 00000011 ? X X - - PCI IDE/ATAPI Bus Driver Ide
51 00000010 ? - - - - Intel(R) PRO 100 UNDI Driver Undi
53 00000021 D - - 2 - Simple Network Protocol Driver Snp3264
55 00000020 D - - 2 - PXE Base Code Driver PxeBc
57 00000020 D - - 2 - PXE DHCPv4 Driver PxeDhcp4
58 00000010 ? - - - - ARP Network Service Driver Arp
59 00000010 ? - - - - DHCP Protocol Driver Dhcp4
5A 00000010 ? - - - - IP4 Network Service Driver Ip4
5B 00000010 ? - - - - IP4 CONFIG Network Service Driver Ip4Config
5C 00000010 ? - - - - MNP Network Service Driver Mnp
5D 00000010 ? - - - - MTFTP4 Network Service Mtftp4
5E 00000010 ? - - - - Tcp Network Service Driver Tcp4
5F 00000010 ? - - - - UDP Network Service Driver Udp4
61 00000031 B - - 5 8 SCSI Bus Driver SysROM:SCSI Bus Dri
62 00000020 ? - - - - Scsi Disk Driver SysROM:SCSI Disk Dr
63 00000030 ? - - - - SCSI Tape Driver SysROM:SCSI Tape Dr

[Torsten.]

You already have a RAID of drive 1 and drive 2.

[Zinky · Accepted solution]

It is special RAID. built in.

It can only do Mirror + HP (2 sets though)

Please try... go to BIOS and find the interface for you to carve your SAS Mirrored volume

[Ratzie]

Sorry I am use to sparcs and risc machines, how do I get into the bios?

[Zinky]

Well on the same console you are performing the install sir... If you aer able to navigate a Solaris RSC/COnsole then it should be intjuitive for ya...

Let us know

[Torsten.]

>> how do I get into the bios?



Scroll 5 posts up - I wrote it!


Shell> drvcfg ...

[Zinky]

Restart your OS.
Interrupt Boot Process (EFI Boot Manager)
Go to EFI Shell

Shell> drvcfg -s 20


20 is where your SAS embedded adapter is based on what you fursnihed.

After that.. it should be real EZ and intuitive to carve your RAID Volume for your bootdisk.