Unfortunately, I do not think there is an esay way to view the RSS sets, though I think there may be an internal utility that does this or possibly through SSSU.
Even though HP states that you should just populate your disk shelves and add all the disks at once, I find that I can get better results by following a few guidelines...
1. Always add ONLY the drives you need to add to ONE disk group at a time. If you have 8 shelves and you have 2 groups of 16 disk and you want to add 8 more disks into each group... install 8 new disks and add them to the first group, then install the next 8 and add them to the second group. ALWAYS spread your new disks across all the shelves.
2. IF you have an uneven number of disks in a group... 8 shelves and 15 disks in the group, install the first disk in the shelf that only has one disk from the group and add it to the group, then add the rest of the disks for THAT group you want to add to following the above.
3. Always add disks in groups of 8, especially if you have a disk group which is already 8 disks or divisable by 8.
4. Don't mix drive sizes. Even though there should not be any performance issues, it makes the life of the controllers easier to manage the group, and perhaps increasing performance (even if only .5%).
And your right, I don't recall any specific information being presented on this. The best Practice guide SHOULD contain info like this, even though RSS is an internal (to the controller) operation that the end-user usually does not need to know about. Educating the end-user is important especially when it can effect the security of their data.
Steven
Steven Clementi
HP Master ASE, Storage, Servers, and Clustering
MCSE (NT 4.0, W2K, W2K3)
VCP (ESX2, Vi3, vSphere4, vSphere5, vSphere 6.x)
RHCE
NPP3 (Nutanix Platform Professional)
