From owner-freebsd-proliant@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 14 21:01:30 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A2FD16A424 for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 21:01:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rainer@ultra-secure.de) Received: from bsd.ultra-secure.de (bsd.ultra-secure.de [62.146.20.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC0F843D5D for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 21:01:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rainer@ultra-secure.de) Received: (qmail 83150 invoked by uid 89); 14 Dec 2005 21:01:09 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.1.0 ppid: 83141, pid: 83145, t: 1.6896s scanners: attach: 1.1.0 clamav: 0.86.2/m:33/d:1045 spam: 3.0.4 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.224?) (rainer@ultra-secure.de@217.71.83.52) by bsd.ultra-secure.de with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 14 Dec 2005 21:01:07 -0000 Message-ID: <43A08812.7050308@ultra-secure.de> Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 22:01:06 +0100 From: Rainer Duffner User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20051013) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brad Miele References: <20051214153734.Y3411@payswan.miggles.org> In-Reply-To: <20051214153734.Y3411@payswan.miggles.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on bsd.ultra-secure.de X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.4 Cc: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help with HP MSA 1500cs and DL380 X-BeenThere: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Technical discussion of FreeBSD on HP ProLiant server platforms." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 21:01:30 -0000 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