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Date:      Wed, 14 Dec 2005 22:01:06 +0100
From:      Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de>
To:        Brad Miele <bmiele@ipnstock.com>
Cc:        freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Help with HP MSA 1500cs and DL380
Message-ID:  <43A08812.7050308@ultra-secure.de>
In-Reply-To: <20051214153734.Y3411@payswan.miggles.org>
References:  <20051214153734.Y3411@payswan.miggles.org>

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Brad Miele wrote:

> 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 setup. I can go into further details of the 
> issues that I am experiencing, but since this is slightly OT for this 
> list i just thought i would throw a flag out there and see if anyone 
> can offer advice.
>
> 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.
>
> really, any tips at all about where to find resources for a setup like 
> this would be gratefully appreciated.
>



The freebsd-scsi@ mailinglist is really the place you want to ask.
Don't forget to mention what OS-revision you are actually running.
Good luck getting it to work, though - FreeBSD doesn't seem to be very 
SAN-friendly, esp. in the HA-deppartment.


cheers,
Rainer



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