HPE MSA 2060 16GB FIBRE CHANNEL SFF STORAGE

[M_M_K]

Hi, I am new to setting up HPE Devices and I need expert advice on setting up "HPE MSA 2060 16GB FIBRE CHANNEL SFF STORAGE" with 2 X HPE DL380 GEN10 8SFF for a client. Primarily please help me to understand what requirment gathering questions I should be asking the client from Storage perspective in specific and setting up HP Servers. I do have some knowledge on Servers and Storage, but not to the level of design. 

Below are the equipment to be setup:

Server 1 : HPE DL380 GEN10 8SFF with 4 x HPE 600GB SAS 12G MISSION CRITICAL 10K SFF  and 2 x HPE         SN1100Q 16GB DUAL PORT FIBRE CHANNEL HOST BUS ADAPTER

Server 2 : HPE PROLIANT DL380 GEN10 8SFF with 4 x HPE 300GB SAS 12G MISSION CRITICAL 10K SFF SC and 1 x HPE SN1100Q 16GB DUAL PORT FIBRE CHANNEL HOST BUS ADAPTER

Storage Server: HPE MSA 2060 16GB FIBRE CHANNEL SFF STORAGE with 16 x HPE MSA 3.84TB SAS 12G READ INTENSIVE SFF (2.5IN) M2 3YR WTY SSD and 2x HPE MSA 16GB SHORT WAVE FIBRE CHANNEL SEP+ 4-PACK TRANSCEIVER.

Your beneficial inputs will be very valuable for me a Tec Free lancer. 

Many thanks. 

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System recommended content:

1. HPE MSA 2060 Storage Array - Overview

2. HPE MSA 1060/2060/2062 Storage Management Guide

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[msobers22]

Hello,

Based on your post here are my assumptions.

• You will be installing the servers as well as the storage array.
• The customer supplied rack has space and power.
• You have Fibre Channel SAN experience.
• The customer has FC SAN experience.

Here are some questions.

• Will this be a direct attached or switch attached configuration?
• If switch attached; Are these existing or new switches?
• Who will be responsible for zoning?
• What operating system will be installed on the servers?
• Do you know how to install and configure multipath software on the connected servers?
•  How many volumes need to be created and attached to the hosts?
• What are the volume sizes that need to be created?

Information you need to configure the system.

• Network settings (IPv4, DNS)
• Date and Time (NTP)
• User definitions (local, LDAP)
• Notifications (email, SNMP, syslog)
• Disk group and pool creation
• Creating hosts (naming initiators, assigning initiators to hosts)

Here are some useful documents:

Document - HPE MSA 1060/2060/2062 Installation Guide | HPE Support 

Document - HPE MSA 1060/2060/2062 Storage Arrays Best Practices | HPE Support 

Hopefully this helps

[ArunKKR]

Hi,

Adding to msobers22's feedback which covers pretty much every thing:

Please refer to the below guides which should give you an idea on how MSA 2060 architecture works.

MSA 2060 Best practices guide:

https://www.hpe.com/psnow/doc/a00105260enw

MSA 2060 Technical reference guide:

https://www.hpe.com/psnow/doc/a00103247enw

MSA 2060 Hyper V implementation guide:

https://www.hpe.com/psnow/doc/a00119216enw

Please refer to the HPE SPOCK page for information on compatible FC HBA card firmware/drivers.

https://h20272.www2.hpe.com/spock/  Click on  Configuration set zip file on the left side menu and select HPE MSA 2060/2062 FC Storage

HPE MSA 2050/2052 Storage Configuration and Best Practices for VMware vSphere technical white paper:

https://www.hpe.com/psnow/doc/4aa4-7060enw

The above document is for previous generation MSA. However, it could still be used as a reference.

You may use the below web link to identify what could be the IOPS that could be expected from the configuration:

https://ninjaonline.ext.hpe.com/

[M_M_K]

@msobers22 

Hello msobers22, 

• You will be installing the servers as well as the storage array. - Yes
• The customer supplied rack has space and power.- Yes
• You have Fibre Channel SAN experience.- Basic understanding only. Your further inputs on physicall connectivity and configuration will help immensley
• The customer has FC SAN experience.- No, they are using ISCI SAN with NetApp

Here are some questions.

• Will this be a direct attached or switch attached configuration? - Direct Attached (Point to Point), as the Servers have HBA Cards in them. And the MSA 2060 storage has 2x HPE MSA 16GB SHORT WAVE FIBRE CHANNEL SEP+ 4-PACK TRANSCEIVER
• If switch attached; Are these existing or new switches?- N/A
• Who will be responsible for zoning? N/A, since no SAN switch will be used. 
• What operating system will be installed on the servers? 2 Servers will have Esxi 8.0 and 3 rd server will run Win Server 2022
• Do you know how to install and configure multipath software on the connected servers? I understand multipath, but never got the opportunity. 
•  How many volumes need to be created and attached to the hosts? Client has no preference. They have asked us to suggested as per 16* 3.84TB SSD in the MSA 2060
• What are the volume sizes that need to be created? Again we have to suggest to client. They will host 20vms and will be using veeam for backup to a Tape Library and Replication to a DR Site. 

Information you need to configure the system.

• Network settings (IPv4, DNS) - Client will provide as per their network segmentation
• Date and Time (NTP) - to be done on site
• User definitions (local, LDAP) - Mostly Local, as there will be only 2 administrators
• Notifications (email, SNMP, syslog) - Email. 
• Disk group and pool creation - Again we have to suggest as per the number of disks and total capacity and which RAID is recommended. 
• Creating hosts (naming initiators, assigning initiators to hosts) - Host setup will be part of provisioning scope of MSA 2060, along with volme setup. 

Many Many thanks,