Help with HP MSA 1500cs and DL380

[Brad Miele]

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> Hi Brad,
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> FCA2214 should run firmware 1.45 for hosts other than Windows. Did you
> notice ispfw(4) and isp(4)? They are talking about a different kind of
> firmware for the HBA. Maybe you should rebuild your kernel with
>
>   device isp
>   # For one or more SCSI busses:
>   device scbus0
>   device ispfw
>
> to use the FreeBSD provided firmware.

ahhhh, i think that i am doing this, I am loading ispfw via 
/boot/loader.conf .do you think statically compiling it is a better 
method?

>
> Please connect via serial line to the MSA1000 controller. Enter the
> command show TECH_SUPPORT. You can also connect the MSA1000 serial cable
> to the MSA20 serial port and activate the debugging output by pressing
> the TAB key. This would be only helpfull, if we know that on of the
> MSA20 boxes got a problem.
>
> MSA 1000/1500 cs Command Line Interface
> http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c00149849/c00149849.pdf
>
> Page 50 show how to configure a connection profile. You need to set it
> to "Solaris".
> CLI> ADD CONNECTION ABC WWPN=12345678-12345678 PROFILE=SOLARIS

excellent, i have done this on both boxes

>
> Why do you use 3 I/O Modules in the MSA1500cs? Which MSAx0 is attached
> to which I/O module and to which port? Please check that each MSA30 is
> connected to the SCSI port on the I/O module and MSA20 to a SATA capable
> port.

this is because HP says that you cannot have a SCSI shelf and a SATA shelf 
sharing an I/O module, and each Module can only support one scsi 
connection. so i have the 2 SATA shelves sharing an I/O Module, and the 
SCSI shelves each have their own. the SCSI shelves are on the first two 
I/O modules, and the SATA shelves are on the third.

> By the way, its not recommended to spread arrays across different boxes.
> If one box fail, more than an array will be down.

thanks, i will adjust this today, I was concerned that there would be an 
issue with having UFS volumes > 2T. Is this not an issue with UFS2?

> Which version of FreeBSD you are running? (uname -a)

FreeBSD bwayipn04.ipnstock.com 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #1: Thu Aug 
4 17:31:22 EDT 2005 
root at bwayipn04.ipnstock.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BWAYIPN0420050803  i386

I am thinking that I will be upping to 6-Stable at some point when i am on 
location in January (the machines are in new york, and i am in Maine). I 
am sort of watching the lists for any dl380 shakeout isues with 6 before i 
make the leap.

thanks again Sebastian

>
> Regards,
> Sebastian
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Brad
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On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Sebastian Koehler wrote: