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тАО05-13-2010 10:41 AM
тАО05-13-2010 10:41 AM
I see plenty of documentation on replacing a disk drive in an M6412 enclosure.
But nothing about adding net new drives.
Simply stick one in, wait, see it in CmdView, repeat for the rest.
Then do the firmware update on the drives.
Then add them to a disk group.
Is that it?
I have an EVA8400 with 27 M6412 Disk shelves. With exisiting 600GB 10K FC drives and 1TB FATA drives. I'm adding 10 450GB FC 10k drives we unexpectedly had available. Going to add to a separate disk group for a specific function.
Cheers
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тАО05-13-2010 11:31 AM
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тАО05-13-2010 12:21 PM
тАО05-13-2010 12:21 PM
Re: EVA8400
Give you a full 10 pts if you can find an actual doc that says that.
For now I'll give you 8.
Post the doc and you'll get another 10.
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тАО05-13-2010 12:23 PM
тАО05-13-2010 12:23 PM
Re: EVA8400
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тАО05-13-2010 09:16 PM
тАО05-13-2010 09:16 PM
Re: EVA8400
I don't recall I have even seen a 'complete' description. In some pre-X400 manuals it was even written that you could add up to 4 disks drives at once -- I guess that is the reason why I find EVAs with duplicate disk names from time to time.
In my opinion, many EVA manuals are not really 'top quality'.
When I look into the HP StorageWorks 4400 Enterprise Virtual Array user guide (5697-0118__20090919, 6th edition, September 2009), I see 'very useful' statements like:
""
* Adding disk drives to the storage system
As your storage requirements grow, you may be adding disk drives to your storage system.
Adding new disk drives is the easiest way to increase the storage capacity of the storage system.
Disk drives can be added online without impacting storage system operation.
""
And that's it for this topic :-(
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тАО05-14-2010 01:17 AM
тАО05-14-2010 01:17 AM
Re: EVA8400
The last time I did this I grouped one drive at a time. Obviously it would be quicker if I could group multiples or infact all 12.
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тАО05-14-2010 01:27 AM
тАО05-14-2010 01:27 AM
Re: EVA8400
It still gives another useful advice if you have multiple disk groups or want to create a new group:
- Set the add disk option to manual
Otherwise the controller firmware will add a new disk to the disk group with the least amount of free space.
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тАО05-14-2010 09:10 AM
тАО05-14-2010 09:10 AM
Re: EVA8400
You physically add the disks 1 at a time.
Then you check the firmware is up to date on the disks.
If not then update the firmware.
Once the disks are ready you can group them all at once into a disk group. Try to keep the number of disks in the Disk group as a multiple of 8.
Regards
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тАО05-14-2010 09:11 AM
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тАО05-14-2010 09:12 AM
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