Configuring Raid on an MSA50

[Paolo_c]

Good morning,

I'm looking to purchase some MSA50's and P800 controllers which will be hooked upto some Legacy HP rx2800 servers running a mixture of HP-UX 11.31 and OpenVMS 8.4-xxx O/S. Although I have previous experience of configuring MSAxx Raid partitions on VMS systems using the sys$system:msa$util utility, I'm unfamiliar with provisioning storage on an MSAxx using any other utility and was wondering whether there was specific raid s/ware (that would need to be ordered separately to P800/MSA50?) that might allow us to do this?

I note that the release notes for the MSA50 mention that "The MSA50 is managed by HP Systems Insight Manager" but unclear on whether Insight manager provides the i/face to configure the Raid storage on the HP-UX (and VMS) Systems ? I'm looking to create partitions on Raid10 which under msa$util, i would do using commands similar to the ones listed below so hoping that configuration under any other utility would be similarly straightforward/intuitive ? I havent configured any storage on any MSAxxx for over 20 years now, as more familiar with using 3PAR SSMC or XP2400 so would be grateful for any information you could provide

Create_partition S2 size=25
Create_partition S2 size=25
Create_partition S2 size=25
Create_partition S2 size=largest

Add unit d300 partition=1 writeback_cache
Add unit d301 partition=2 writeback_cache
Add unit d302 partition=3 writeback_cache
Add unit d303 partition=4 writeback_cache

[ArunKKR · Accepted solution]

Hi Paolo,

RAID configuration on MSA 50 attached to P800 controller would usually be done using ACU (Array configuration utility) in windows and Linux based servers. I believe, you could either use offline ORCA to configure RAID or saconfig utility for HP UX. Please refer to the guide at below web link:  https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-c02011726

Note: MSA 50 is an end of support life product. The information that I have shared is purely from MSA perspective.

Any HPE integrity server experts could add their inputs related to saconfig utility.

[Paolo_c]

Many thanks for the feedback provided !