Help and advice on Installing FC-10 (or Surestore E)

[Doug_3]

Hello, we purchased an FC-10 and the SE is about to come out and install the cards.

I am unable to find an HP site/reference on the steps to create the device files, h/w paths, and everything else necessary to get the beast up and running.

If someone can point me to the correct url or if you happen to have a handy 5 step process you can pass on, I would greatly appreciate it.

I am interested in a RAID 1+0 set up....

Thanks to all in advance,

Doug

[Bill McNAMARA_1 · Accepted solution]

It's a CE
(Customer Engineer)

I am unable to find an HP site/reference on the steps to create the device files,

One you plug in the Disk system to your FC loop (direct or to hub)
Run
# ioscan -f

# top (wait for ioscan to finish)

# ioscan -fnkCdisk | grep FC

you should see a number of FC disks - seagate corresponding to the number installed in your FC10


h/w paths,

This is nasty!
It depends on your LCC (link control card) dial setting:

See this link:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xb0b653921f1ad5118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html


and everything else necessary to get the beast up and running.

# insf -eC disk

will create the device files.

RAID 1/0 or RAID 1 must be done by LVM because the FC10 is not a Disk Array, but rather a JBOD.
The only way to do this is via Mirror Disk.

Each disk in the FC10 will have a device file.

you need to make sure your vg includes 2 FC10 disks then to lvcreate -m 1 ...

or

4 disks required for R1/0
striping and mirroring.

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

PS why post to linux:

post disk/ array stuff here:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/FamilyHome/1,,120,00.html

Later,
Bill

[Doug_3]

Thanks Bill.