Dumb question of the week

[Tony Glynn_1]

Hi all ... I've had PM CPQ experience so I understand their offerings and I've got the all time stupid question of the week.

I've just started an engagement with a classic HP customer who has a VA7400. How is it expanded? Do they just buy another shelf c/with 2x fibre ports and connect it to the brocade? What are the limits under W2K to doing this - just the LUN addressing capabilities of the OS.

I have been looking for 2 days on the HP sites for this info... Must be looking for LUNS in all the wrong places .... LOL!

[Michael Steele_2]

I don't know the pedigree of these disk arrays either but HP is renaming everything lately and its very confusing. For example, NAS 8000 and va7400 and command view. I've used command view and can help you with it but you should probably take the SAN Storage Class.

Here is a NAS 8000/VA74000/Command View link:

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=lpg35075

Another is:

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=lpg35075

Good luck in your endeavor.

[Roger_22]

The VA7400 can have up to 6 add-on disk shelves and a total of 105 disks. New shelves are just daisy chained off the existing shelves. (they do not plug into the switch). Any combination of supported disks can be used. The virtualization handles all the space allocation. You???ll just create new LUNs with the new physically capacity. If it???s a windows system, there is a good chance they???ll have Secure Manager installed. If that???s the case, then you???ll need to configure the access rights to the new LUNs. The array and Window support 1024 LUNs, (I think) the largest LUN Windows will support is 2TB ??? I???ll guess this will not be a hardship.

[Peter Mattei]

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I suggest you have a look at the VA User and Service guide on http://h20015.www2.hp.com/content/common/manuals/lpg28817/lpg28817.pdf;jsessionid=GE2AGF4XMO5KPQEXGR5UOSQ
It explains how the VA systems are built, expanded etc.
Enjoy
Peter