3PAR 8200 and new disks

[pogreb33]

Hi all!
We bought 4 disks for 3PAR 8200 fw: 3.3.1.648 (MU5)+P126,P132,P135,P140,P146,P150,P151,P155,P156
Checking disc compatibility for my hardware

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I don't like that the information on the disc bin is different from the information on the disc.

But according to the document everything is compatible.
Is it so?
Can I install these drives in my equipment?New diskOld disk

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1. I can hot mount disks
2. Prompt commands to check disk initialization

Thanks!

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[pogreb33]

Hello! I don't want to downgrade the software I want to make sure that the discs will be accepted correctly by the device

[giladzzz]

Hi

Check 3PAR drive support matrix  on SPOCK

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[sbhat09]

Hello @pogreb33,

This PD's product number is not among the compatible drives with 3PAR 8000. Let me check my sources further and confirm you.

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[pogreb33]

Hello giladzzz!
Can you share a direct link to the supported equipment?
Did not find a list of disks for the 8000 series

Hi sbhat09!

I'll be waiting

[sbhat09]

Hello @pogreb33,

I checked about it further. The drive (drive PM1633A, model no. AREA1920S5xnNTRI) is compatible with your 3PAR 8200. What you must be conscious of is, this drive is a non-encrypted drive model. If rest of the drives are encrypted, you may not mix with them.

Please let me know if you need assistance on this.

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[pogreb33]

Hi sbhat09!

The drives that are installed have the following characteristics

Samsung ARFX1920S5xnNTRI

s/n 0M100137

fw 3P00

Are these drives encrypted?

[sbhat09]

Hello @pogreb33,

You can check the encryption status of the existing drives with 'showpd -s' command. Look for SedState column. NotCapable, not encrypted are fine with installing this drive.

Regarding your present query - Samsung ARFX1920S5xnNTRI is also non-encrypted drive.

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[pogreb33]

Thank you very much for the answer but the 'showpd -s' command does not show the encryption

[sbhat09]

Hello @pogreb33 

Are you getting the 'SedState' column like this?

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[pogreb33]

Yes. I have all disks mode SetState -non_capable

How do I properly install disks?
1. I insert a disk one into the next slot. I'm waiting for the indicators to flash
2. Next, what commands do I need to run to check if the disk has been successfully attached? Do I need to perform systun

[sbhat09]

Hello @pogreb33,

If it is a new disk, insert the disk in an empty slot and admit the disk (you can use admitpd command). Admit process will update the drive firmware to match with the system OS and brings to a usable state.

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[pogreb33]

sbhat09, big thanks!!!

[pogreb33]

Do I need to do tunsys on the device?

[sbhat09]

Hello @pogreb33,

Is there a specific purpose you want to do tunesys?

I don't see any need of tunesys here.

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[pogreb33]

I want the new space to be correctly added to the device

[sbhat09]

Hello @pogreb33,

Which is the new PD (pd id) you have added?

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[pogreb33]

Slots

0:8:0

0:9:0

0:10:0

0:11:0

[sbhat09]

Hello @pogreb33,

Sorry, this is my last question . . .

Which CPG they belong to? What is the RAID and set size of the CPG?

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[sbhat09]

Hello @pogreb33,

As I mentioned before, there is no need of tunesys here. I see the disks 0-5 are utilised slightly more compared to 6-11. Upto 5% of difference is utilization is normal. That is not a problem

If you are still looking for equal data distribution, you can run tunesys at CPG level. The command will be 'tunesys -cpg <cpg_name>'

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[pogreb33]

The command will be 'tunesys -cpg SSD_r6' I will release (free) only 5387gib? 

[sbhat09]

Hello @pogreb33,

The 5387 GiB you see there is usable space that is available for the volumes. Among the available chunklets (1787 chunklets per drive), after deducting the spare (around 8-10% from each drive) and RAID overhead (depending on the type of RAID and set size), the remaining will be usable space.

Here after present utilization, you have approximately 5387GiB more usable space.

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[sbhat09]

Hello @pogreb33,

I tried to keep it simple/short. Please let me know if you need more details on anything.

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[pogreb33]

sbhat09, Thank you very much for your professional replies.