UPGRADE DISK STATION DS 2300

[shridhar_1]

DEAR SIRs

I have 2 rp 3410 servers in cluster

processors -- 2 on each
ram -- 4 GB on 1 server, 2 GB on other
os -- HPUX 11.11 mirror ux, with Service Gaurd
Ds -- DS 2300, 8 disks of 73 GB

disks are mirrored s/w raid

I require a DS or array or .. with
high speed, raid 5 (h/w),
high capacity ( 800 GB +), in cluster environment

please tell me how to upgrade from DS 2300

i m new to HP Ux
I even donot know which devices will
solve my requirements and are compatible with
my server ie RP 3410

please help me


thanks

shri

[njia_1]

Hi Shri,

I think this will be a very complicated and challenging task. In a very high level I think something called business copy can do this for you, if your DS 2300 supports it.

thanks

[shridhar_1]

i donot need DS 2300

complete new storage

please provide solution in detail

my disk requirements are
growing by 3GB per month


thanks for the reply

shri

[Hoang Chi Cong_1]

Hi shri

For your question, it depend on your system requirement.
But as my mind, EVA (Enterprise Vitual Array) is the best solution for your environment!
You can ask HP for the specification about EVA.
From now, HP has EVA 4000, EVA 6000, EVA 8000 series.

For detail, you can see on the attachment (total capacity etc....)

Hope this helps
Best and regard,
Hoang Chi Cong

[Hoang Chi Cong_1]

Ahhhh....

Forgot:
The other way that you can consider:
You can choose VA (Vitual Array) as the solution!
But I thing, VA now is end of life from HP :)
You can use VA7410.
The capacity can expand more than 800GB but the limit of VA is performance!
When using VA, you can reuse the current DS and all of your disks.
VA 7410 only support two kind of RAID DISKS:
1. RAID 0+1
2. AUTORAID (RAID 0+1 and RAID 5DP)


But with EVA, it support a new concept: Vitual RAID (Vraid) and it support three kind of Vraid:
1.Raid0
2.Raid0+1
3.Raid 5

Hope this helps
Hoang Chi Cong

[Devender Khatana]

Hi,

You can also go for a RAID adapters in your server and then can attach MSA1000 or the recent attachment of that version. It supports upto 14 or 15 disks and each of them can be of the capacity of upto 146GB atleast.

If that much of total capacity is sufficient for you you can opt this. It is a cheap solution allthough and you sould also consider EVA's if suits your budget. This enclosures with fully populated will give you

146*14=2044 Raw Capacity &
2044*2/3=1362 GB in Raid5 with 2d,1P

HTH,
Devender

[Mahesh Kumar Malik]

Hi Shri

EVA 4000/6000/8000 storage systems yield high I/O performance. Depending on budget, you may chose the model. On servers, dual SAN adapters are recommended for high availibility

Regards

Mahesh

[Bernhard Mueller · Accepted solution]

Shri,

if you need an array to attach to your MC/SG cluster your best choice would most likely be the EVA4000, plus you need two FC switches, plus two FC HBAs per server.

and that is where your problems start since the rp3410 can use only two of the four PCI slots and most likely you already use both for SCSI shared storage (DS2300) and network connectivity.

so you would also have to upgrade the rp3410s to rp3440s to have all à CI 4 slots available, then you could add FC HBAs, attach to the switches and EVA, mirror data through LVM, finally remove the mirror from the DS2300.

Regards,
Bernhard

[shridhar_1]

thanks to all

can i extend my DS 2300
if my all slots are filled
with hdd

regards

shri

[Luk Vandenbussche]

Hi,

You can install 14 disk in a DS2300
You said you have 8 disks, the other six slots are probably filled with dummies.
There is no disk size specified on these dummies. You can perfectly remove these dummies online.

[Devender Khatana]

Hi,

You can add another DS2300 enclosure when all the slots in the first one are used. But nowdays there are a lot of other options available for enclosures.

HTH,
Devender

[shridhar_1]

thanks for quick replies

i m planning to add 8 to 10 more disks
how to extend DS 2300

please give in detail

according to me
after 2 - 3 years getting parts will
be more difficult

can any one get me a soft copy of
rehman sys admin book


regards

shri

[Devender Khatana]

Hi,

As mentioned earlier you should add another DS2300 when the first one is fully populated. As the existing one has 8 disks you can add another 6 in this one so instead if this is OK with you it is best. Otherwise you can have additional space by using large capacity disks instead of adding the existing 73GB ones.

HTH,
Devender