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Upgrading HP P4000 networking

Our dealer currently has a killer deal on HP LeftHand P4000 starter kits and we're considering purchasing one or two of them; however each chassis only has 2x 1GbE ethernet. This seems a bit light on to me. HP don't seem to offer anything but 10GbE…
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iSCSI filesystem creation on Linux - Best Practices - Large Volumes - Many Files?

We recently purchased HP Lefthand 4500 G2 24TB box and also a DL380 G7 server. I'm running Centos 6.2 (RHEL 6.2). The Lefthand box consist of 12 2TB HD's configured in RAID6. That gives me about 14.7TB usable space. Scenario : iSCSI SAN for…
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Configure LeftHand iSCSI SAN for jumbo frames after clients are configured

This is similar to enabling jumbo frames on an iSCSI network after the fact but in our case we configured the switches and then went through all the hosts, enabling jumbo frames (we may have screwed ourselves here). The SAN is a Lefthand (actually…
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LeftHand P4000 multi-site replication and vsa

We have one LeftHand P4000 SAN and want to know if it is possible to set up a VSA and then perform SAN to SAN synchronous replication (built into the P4000). Does the VSA emulate a P4000 enough for this to happen? The VSA is secondary would simply…
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Linear Performance Scalability with HP San Solutions

I need a San Solution with linear scalability in size as well as in performance. From what I know, with a Modular Smart Array solution such as the P2000/MSA-class solutions from HP, even with a dual controller initial node, I can only increase the…
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Replacing LeftHand SAN Hard Disk Outside of Warranty / Service Contract

I am working with 3 clusters of LefHand SAN iSCSI storage arrays. The modules are all older NSM 150s and NSM 160s (super micro server hardware, sata disks). The workload is low priority and all modules are no longer covered under a warranty or…
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sql server and vms

I need to deploy some vms for sql servers, how do you plan the san volumes ? put os, data & log files in different vmdk ? or different volumes ? or put all in same volume ? Also , is it good advise to create many volumes or limit them to 1 or 2 ? (…
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Backup software of HP Lefthand P4000 storage

How to back up existing software and configuration of HP Lefthand P4000 series (two P4300G2 nodes in cluster running software version 9.0) storage? We are planning to add virtual failover manager and upgrade to software version 9.5. Upgrade is…
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Raid5 is off on my Lefthand P4500

I have 1 cluster with serveral p4500. There is HW Raid5 and the Raid5 is split on: first 6 is one raid 5, and the other 6 is one raid 5. There were two disk that came up with a fault. I replaced both disk in same Raid5. Now the storagesystem says…
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ESX Server not seeing ISCSI Device for connection to HP Lefthand SAN Array

I have an ESX server array that I had connected to four HP SAN boxes. Unfortunately, HP only sent me three certificates (and I lost track) so it was running with only 3 of the 4 boxes cert'ed. I have called up HP, we found the cert and now all 4 are…
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P4000 and ESX storage design

I need help and advice how to design my volumes to fit the need - good performance for sql type application, no lack of performance for file servers, remote copy or replication to dr site for protection for 90% data. my situation - site A (…
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Lefthand SAN questions

I'm curious about Lefthand SAN solutions from HP. People from Dell have told me that Lefthand SAN's require at least two nodes and data must be mirroring between them so capacity is a half less compare to other SAN technology (e.g.Equal Logic). Is…
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