Help with HP MSA 1500cs and DL380

[bmiele at ipnstock.com]

Hello,

Recently, my company moved my storage from 4 HP MSA30 scsi shelves (2 per 
machine mirrored) to two HP MSA 1500cs SAN devices. I have moved the MSA30 
shelves into the SAN, and also have 4 (2 per msa1500cs) MSA20 SATA shelves.

I am running into more then a few issues getting these units, particularily the 
MSA20s, happy. HP is giving me a hard time because freebsd is not a 
supported OS, and i am sort of lost and looking for resources specific to 
this combination.

my setups are two identical dl380 machines running 5.4-Stable from Aug. 4. I am 
using the HP OEM Qlogic 2313 fiber card which uses the isp driver. each machine 
is attached to a msa1500cs with 4 shelves, 2 msa20 and two msa30. The 
msa1500c and all shelves are running the most recent firmware. I have each 
SAN broken into 5 luns, the two msa20 scsi shelves are dedicated entirely 
to 1.5T volumes, and the two msa30 shelves have been broken into 3 1.4T 
volumes. They are raid 5, with a 64kB. Both units have given me bus 
reset errors and timeout errors. Yesterday, one of the msa20 shelves just 
freaked out and went away.

really, any tips at all about where to find resources for a setup like this 
would be gratefully appreciated. I can provide any information that I have 
neglected as well.

thanks,

Brad
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  Brad Miele
  IPNStock
  bmiele at ipnstock.com