HP DL380 Help adding drives
19 April 2006, 04:48 PM
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HP DL380 Help adding drives
Hello
I currently have 2 x 72gb drives (mirrored)
and want to add another 2 x 72gb drives.
i have whacked the drives in, they lit up for a bit and now what?
do i need to run the smartstart software or something?
also i've got a few jumpers here for scsi id settings, should i use them as well.
the drives came with no instructions.
cheers in advance
dazza
I currently have 2 x 72gb drives (mirrored)
and want to add another 2 x 72gb drives.
i have whacked the drives in, they lit up for a bit and now what?
do i need to run the smartstart software or something?
also i've got a few jumpers here for scsi id settings, should i use them as well.
the drives came with no instructions.
cheers in advance
dazza
19 April 2006, 05:06 PM
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Originally Posted by WRX_Dazza
Hello
I currently have 2 x 72gb drives (mirrored)
and want to add another 2 x 72gb drives.
i have whacked the drives in, they lit up for a bit and now what?
do i need to run the smartstart software or something?
also i've got a few jumpers here for scsi id settings, should i use them as well.
the drives came with no instructions.
cheers in advance
dazza
I currently have 2 x 72gb drives (mirrored)
and want to add another 2 x 72gb drives.
i have whacked the drives in, they lit up for a bit and now what?
do i need to run the smartstart software or something?
also i've got a few jumpers here for scsi id settings, should i use them as well.
the drives came with no instructions.
cheers in advance
dazza
The drives you have mirrored are SCSI?
The Drives you want to connect up are also SCSI?
So what do you want to do with your new drives? I.e create another 2 disk mirror? Or Try and add them to your existing 2 Drive mirror?
19 April 2006, 06:08 PM
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You need to use the HP ACU util, you can either do this at boot (F9 IIRC) or through the HP utils, now web based, but should be on the start menu if the server was built with smart start, if not download the latest proliant support pack and install that.
You DO NOT need to mess around with jumpers, the drives should be jumperless..
HP ACU doesnt support extending logical disks but you can add the disks to an existing array as another logical disk, you could then stripe these in the OS, but I wouldnt recommend that.
when configuring drives, the drives your applying the changes to should flash orange, if your making changes to a 'controller' all drives attached will flash orange.
David
You DO NOT need to mess around with jumpers, the drives should be jumperless..
HP ACU doesnt support extending logical disks but you can add the disks to an existing array as another logical disk, you could then stripe these in the OS, but I wouldnt recommend that.
when configuring drives, the drives your applying the changes to should flash orange, if your making changes to a 'controller' all drives attached will flash orange.
David
19 April 2006, 08:55 PM
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Dazza,
I'm assuming that the drives are the Universal Ultra320 SCSI 1" Hot pluggable drives that you are putting into the drive bays on the main server chassis?
As David says you should not need to mess about with any jumpers as they should be jumperless - the controller should set any required ID's.
Once the drives are in, use the Smart Start software at boot-up to configure up the new drives presumably RAID 1 (mirrored) as you already have an existing mirror.
I believe I'm correct in the following but DO NOT mirror up the new drives and then try and stripe (RAID 0) with the existing one as you could either (a) mess up the existing one and your server won't boot or (b) the server will still boot but you won't see the extra disk space that has been added cos the partition will not be correct.
Once you have the new mirror setup if you're running Windows then it should come up as a new Drive when you boot up.... you'll probably have to format the drive when the server is up and running.
HTH
Andy
If you have any q's then PM me or reply here during the day tomorrow as one of the guys I work with has just received a new HP server and he will be doing it during the day so I could check anything you need.
I'm assuming that the drives are the Universal Ultra320 SCSI 1" Hot pluggable drives that you are putting into the drive bays on the main server chassis?
As David says you should not need to mess about with any jumpers as they should be jumperless - the controller should set any required ID's.
Once the drives are in, use the Smart Start software at boot-up to configure up the new drives presumably RAID 1 (mirrored) as you already have an existing mirror.
I believe I'm correct in the following but DO NOT mirror up the new drives and then try and stripe (RAID 0) with the existing one as you could either (a) mess up the existing one and your server won't boot or (b) the server will still boot but you won't see the extra disk space that has been added cos the partition will not be correct.
Once you have the new mirror setup if you're running Windows then it should come up as a new Drive when you boot up.... you'll probably have to format the drive when the server is up and running.
HTH
Andy
If you have any q's then PM me or reply here during the day tomorrow as one of the guys I work with has just received a new HP server and he will be doing it during the day so I could check anything you need.
19 April 2006, 10:03 PM
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If you have any q's then PM me or reply here during the day tomorrow as one of the guys I work with has just received a new HP server and he will be doing it during the day so I could check anything you need.
Or mail me as I used to support around 600 - 700 of these on a daily basis
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nice one guys, the drives are flashing orange and taking a while 85% complete now.
only time will tell!!!!
dazza
only time will tell!!!!
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should try playing with rebuild priorities 
(ignore it though as its not a rebuild, and one of the best things HP Smart Arrays do, is a pretty good online rebuild!)
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(ignore it though as its not a rebuild, and one of the best things HP Smart Arrays do, is a pretty good online rebuild!)David
21 April 2006, 09:47 AM
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Originally Posted by David_Wallis
should try playing with rebuild priorities (ignore it though as its not a rebuild, and one of the best things HP Smart Arrays do, is a pretty good online rebuild!)
David
(ignore it though as its not a rebuild, and one of the best things HP Smart Arrays do, is a pretty good online rebuild!)David
21 April 2006, 10:18 AM
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Originally Posted by jpor
Well Compaq did buy out Digital, and Now HP have bought Compaq.
So who did Digital buy out then? I've been working with HP Tru64 Unix so long now that I don't really care who owns it or what they call it, however Tru64 does sound better than Digital OSF-1
Shame HP have decided to can it
21 April 2006, 10:21 AM
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Digital just made large fridge's that the called servers..
We had a 'Blue digital' box running VMS or similar iirc and dont get me started on the old Digital DEC5000 servers :spit:
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We had a 'Blue digital' box running VMS or similar iirc and dont get me started on the old Digital DEC5000 servers :spit:
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21 April 2006, 10:23 AM
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So who did Digital buy out then? I've been working with HP Tru64 Unix so long now that I don't really care who owns it or what they call it, however Tru64 does sound better than Digital OSF-1
Shame HP have decided to can it
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Originally Posted by David_Wallis
Digital just made large fridge's that the called servers..
We had a 'Blue digital' box running VMS or similar iirc and dont get me started on the old Digital DEC5000 servers :spit:
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We had a 'Blue digital' box running VMS or similar iirc and dont get me started on the old Digital DEC5000 servers :spit:
David
Similar with the old 9 Track (?) tape drives same as the ones in the main computer room in War Games.... nothing but thin air
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Originally Posted by jpor
Well they couldn't run with both products. Especially when HP have their own flavour of UNIX (HP-UX ) using their own up-to-date hardware.
One big re-platform coming up for me in the next year or so
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Any good links to docs about Smart Array/DL disk management & management there of?
Hopefully getting in a DL385 with the blade enclosure I'm about to order, need to mirror up the disks.
Cheers, Alex
Hopefully getting in a DL385 with the blade enclosure I'm about to order, need to mirror up the disks.
Cheers, Alex
21 April 2006, 02:27 PM
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Alex, the help that comes with the util is more than adequate
You can probably find help on the hp dl385 home page too.
David
You can probably find help on the hp dl385 home page too.
David
21 April 2006, 05:44 PM
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Originally Posted by David_Wallis
Alex, the help that comes with the util is more than adequate
You can probably find help on the hp dl385 home page too.
David
You can probably find help on the hp dl385 home page too.
David
Looking forward to playing with these and RHEL v4
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