Harwware upgrade

[Osunkoya Olugbenga Davi]

Can I upgrade two 18Gb non root hard disk drives on Hp9000 L2000 Class server by replacing them with two 73Gb hard disk drive?

[G. Vrijhoeven]

Hi,

The only way to do this is create an ignite tape ( image) and restore it.

HTH,

Gideon

[Robert-Jan Goossens · Accepted solution]

Hi,

A6091A 73GB 10,000 RPM Hot-Plug Ultra-2 SCSI hard drive - Half height

Is supported as an internal disk, so Yes you can, backup the volumegroup, recreate it to support the 73 GB disks and restore the data.

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[T G Manikandan]

It depends on the maximum size of the hard disk on that VG.
If the vg contains all 18gb hard disks and you are trying to upgrade it to 72GB then there would be constraints with MAX_PE value of the VG.

The MAX_PE value by default is allocated a value corresponding to the largest sized hard disk in the VG.

If that is the case then you need to re-create the VG.

[Osunkoya Olugbenga Davi]

If the 73Gb can work, can I also use 146Gb Hard drive (Hot plug)? Pls., give the Part Number.

Thanks.

[G. Vrijhoeven]

Hi,

I am afraid 73 GB is the limit:

http://www.hp.com/products1/servers/rackoptimized/rp5400series/infolibrary/pdfs/5400-whitepaper.pdf
The L class is replaced by the rp5400 class.

HTH,

Gidoen

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi,

internal storageâ The rp5400 ( L-Class )series supports up to four internal hot-plug disk drives, which can be
either half-height or low-profile form factors. Current disk offerings include 18, 36, and 73GB
Ultra160 disk drives. The maximum internal storage is 292GB, via four 73GB drives.

Regards,
Robert-