MC/SG configuration with MSA1000 HUB 2/3 configuration

[LEO SIMON_1]

Dear Sir,

I need your clarification does this configuration is supported ?
Two server running O/S HP-UX with one FC card in each server.
Connected directly to one MSA1000 with one controller MSA and 1 FC controller with type HUB 2/3 configuration.
And we configured two server as one cluster MC/SG ?

Thanks for your help

Regards,

Leo

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

This hardware is compatible with MC/SG.

A firmware update may be required to have two systems connect to it at the same time and see storage.

SEP

[LEO SIMON_1]

Dear Sir,

What you mean for upgrade the firmware ?
And what is the purpose of upgrading the firmware.
Because I only using 1 MSA1000 with one controller and 1 FC controller HUB 2/3 in this configuration.

Do I need to upgrade the MSA1000 firmware or the server firmware ?

And why each time one server reboot it always give the error message that seems the connection of the FC had been disconnected from the other server ?


Thanks

Leo

[Stephen Doud · Accepted solution]

HP has tested the MSA1000 with Serviceguard and gives these support requirements/restrictions:

The MSA1000 is supported with Serviceguard and SGeRAC A.11.15 or later on HP-UX 11i v1, 11i v2 and 11i v3.

It is not supported with VxVM 3.5, CVM 3.5, VxVM 4.1, CVM 4.1, CFS 4.1, VxVM 5.0, CVM 5.0 or CFS 5.0.

For HA use, the MSA1000 requires the use of either the add-on 8 port Fibre Channel switch, the add-on 3 port Fibre Channel hub or an external Fibre Channel switch.

It is supported for direct connection for up to 7 nodes with the add-on 8-port Fibre Channel switch and up to 16 nodes using external Fibre Channel switches.

It is supported for direct connection for up to 2 nodes with the add-on 3-port Fibre Channel hub and up to 16 nodes using external Fibre Channel switches.

It is not supported with external Fibre Channel hubs.

It is supported only for Single Controller MSA1000 configurations.

High availability configurations require 2 MSA1000 arrays with data mirrored between the arrays using software mirroring with MirrorDisk/UX. (This is due to the single controller requirement above). Shared LVM configurations are limited to 2 nodes, due to the 2 node maximum for mirroring with MirrorDisk/UX.

[LEO SIMON_1]

Dear Sir,

I just found out that our server using FC card AD193A.
And based on the compatibility Matrix to MSA1000.
Unfortunately this card was not supported.
http://bizsupport1.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c00868010/c00868010.pdf

[LEO SIMON_1]

Thanks for all the reply and information

[Torsten.]

What does your document say???

>> for Dual Active Controllers Only <<