MSA1500cs and MSA20

[Holger Fabian]

Hi

I have an MSA1500cs (FW5.10) and a MSA20 with 12x1TB Sata Drives. The Firmware from the MSA20 is up to date.

The Problem is, that the disks are detected as 539,6 GB?

Has everybody an Idea? (FW Update Disks,MSA1500cs etc.)

[IBaltay · Accepted solution]

Hi,
The MSA max capacity is 9TB
http://h18006.www1.hp.com/storage/disk_storage/msa_diskarrays/drive_enclosures/index.html

, therefore, the max. capacity of drives is 12x750GB and the 1TB disks are not supported by the MSA20 controller firmware.

[IBaltay]

The other possibility is to upgrade it to the MSA60, which is surely supported for the 1TB SATA HDD and then use it as the JBOD only (DAS) connected to the host.

http://www.hp.com/united-states/tradein/promo/msaupgrade/index.html

[John Kufrovich]

Holger,

The issue is the MSA1500 FW. Please update your FW to 5.20. In a few weeks, we will be releasing 5.30.

jk

[Holger Fabian]

DAS is not an Option because the cutomer needs Shared Storage on a SAN!

The other Option is a new MSA20 and i Split the Disks on the MSA20.

Other Ideas??

[Holger Fabian]

John

what is with FW 7.00 aktive aktive the customer will upgrade to aktive aktive.

Supports the 7.x FW 12 TB?

[IBaltay]

In my opinion the question is not if the MSA 1500 but if MSA20 controller firmware should support more then 9TB.

[John Kufrovich]

Holger,

It is supported. But the customer needs to beware of further limitations.

1). Max number of LUNs = 32
2). Max LUN size = 2TB
3). Maximum Addressable = 64TB

If they update the 1500 firmware to 5.20/7.00 and MSA20 to 2.02, the drive capacity reporting error will be fixed.

jk