EVA5000 - adding 28 disks - Best Practice?

[Mark...]

Hi,
As above, but the default = 1 disk, just make it 14 for the DG you wish to add them to. Also, Add them all in in one go.
Mark...

[Sakthi Murugan]

hi,

add one disk to drive enclo then waite until drive activity LED to stop then continue with same steps for all diaks

[Uwe Zessin]

No, you can add multiple disks at once.

Also, with host I/O going on, the disks will show activity all the time - you do need to check within Command View EVA whether the addition and leveling has completed.

[KarstenPE]

Hello NG,
Some days ago I added these 28 disks to 2 diskgroups. Everything was fine, but the maximum number of disks CommandView allowed me to add simultaneously was 14 in first place, so I added 10 disks to DG2 and then, surprise, surprise I was able to add the remaining 18 disks in oone step to DG1, as planned.

Thanks to all.
Karsten

[Tim Nelson]

Only a follow up note as I just recently did the same and called HP first to see what their recommendation was.

HP recommended adding 8 at a time to the disk group. It took about 4-6 hours each releveling to finish.

From the reading above it does not seem to matter much but figured I would add the experience.