HP StorageWorks P4000 Maintenance Manual

Maintenance Guide Abstract This guide explains how to back up, restore, upgrade, and otherwise maintain the HP P4800 G2 SAN Solution for BladeSystem. The intended audience is system administrators and technicians with experience managing and repairing networked storage. For installation and configuration information, see the HP P4800 G2 SAN Solution for BladeSystem Quick Start Guide. For day-to-day operations, see t ...

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Contents 1 Overview..................................................................................................6 Hardware components..............................................................................................................6 Hardware configuration.............................................................................................................6 Documentation available...................................................... ...

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a 2-node SAN consisting of two HP P4460sb G2 storage blades and one disk enclosure. The storage blades run the SAN/iQ software, and the disk enclosure contains 70 disks. Up to six storage blades and three disk enclosures can be added, for a total of eight blades and four disk enclosures in an 8-node SAN. Multiple HP P4800 G2 solutions can be combined into c ...

1. Blade enclosure (1) 2. HP P4460sb G2 storage blades (2) 3. HP BladeSystem Insight Display (1) 4. Disk enclosure (1) Hardware configuration 7 ...

1. Blade enclosure (1) 2. HP P4460sb G2 storage blades (4) 3. HP BladeSystem Insight Display (1) 4. Disk enclosures (2) 8 Overview ...

1. Blade enclosure (1) 2. HP P4460sb G2 storage blades (6) 3. HP BladeSystem Insight Display (1) 4. Disk enclosures (3) Hardware configuration 9 ...

1. Blade enclosure (1) 2. HP P4460sb G2 storage blades (8) 3. HP BladeSystem Insight Display (1) 4. Disk enclosures (4) Documentation available For quick installation and setup, see the HP P4800 G2 SAN Solution for BladeSystem Quick Start Guide. For links to the latest manuals for HP BladeSystem and other components, see the HP P4800 G2 SAN Solution for BladeSystem Documentation CD. For detailed instructions ...

Click Help→Help Topics from the menu bar to open the Online Help. Context-sensitive help is available by clicking the question mark on any window. • HP P4000 SAN Solution User Guide Find complete instructions for configuring and managing storage systems and clustered storage volumes in the User Guide. The User Guide is available in PDF format, installed in the same directory as the Centralized Manag ...

HP recommends that you back up all HP P4800 G2 solution components for safekeeping after initially powering on the HP P4800 G2 solution, and immediately after making changes to an existing configuration or replacing a component. You must back up each component (for example, the VC Flex-10 module) separately. Backing up or restoring the Virtual Connect domain configuration Use the Virtual Connect Manager to b ...

Backing up the SAS switch The SAS switch configuration cannot be backed up using the CMC. If replacing one SAS switch, duplicate the configuration from the other switch. If replacing both SAS switches, you will need to restore the configuration from a backup captured using the VSM CLI. For information about backing up and restoring the SAS configuration using the CLI, see the HP Virtual SAS Manager User Guid ...

This chapter provides information to troubleshoot, upgrade, and recover the HP P4800 G2 solution. Troubleshooting For detailed troubleshooting information about the HP P4800 G2 solution components, see the documents listed in Table 1 (page 14). Table 1 Component troubleshooting information Resource Component HP ProLiant BL460c Server Blade User Guide and the HP ProLiant Servers Troubleshooting Guide. HP P4460sb G2 sto ...

the blade enclosure and look at the top of the SAS switch. • Back of the disk enclosure chassis, left-hand front, top corner of the chassis. The back of the disk enclosure chassis may be the most accessible label, as shown in Figure 7 (page 15). Figure 6 Warranty entitlement label Figure 7 Warranty entitlement label location Performing field system recovery ...

You must obtain a license key for the storage blade before you begin the SAN/iQ software imaging process. First, you obtain the MAC address of the HP P4800 G2 solution, then request the license key using the MAC address. Obtain the MAC address The storage blade MAC address is required for you to obtain a license key for use while imaging the storage blade with the SAN/iQ software. 1. Log into iLO for the storage blade. 2. Navigate t ...

Table 3 (page 17), do not continue with this procedure. Table 2 Minimum requirements, overview category Minimum requirement Item CPU on the storage blade: Intel Xeon Processor @ 2.40 Ghz CPU 37 hard drives, which include the following: • Slot 2: 35 drives on the HP Smart Array P700m controller • Slot 0: 2 drives on the HP Smart Array P410i controller Type and number of driv ...

7. Image the SAN/iQ software. Image the SAN/iQ software IMPORTANT: If the storage blade accidentally power-cycles during the SAN/iQ software imaging process, you cannot successfully resume or restart the imaging. You must begin with “Imaging the storage blade with the SAN/iQ software” (page 16). 1. Log in to the iLO for the storage blades. 2. Mount the SAN/iQ Quick Restore CD using V ...

removed disks. When the multiple failed disks are replaced, the P700 controller attempts to restore the disk in bay 35 as a hot spare, but it can only rebuild a single disk at a time. Any disks that are queued for rebuilding will be reported as "OK" by the RAID controller (via the hpacucli). The Disk Status tab in the CMC shows all disks as unsafe to remove, exc ...

enclosure drive firmware. • Upgrading the SAS switch firmware • Upgrading the VC Flex-10 firmware • Upgrading the storage blade firmware If a volume is not replicated, upgrades to the storage blade firmware and OA firmware (BIOS) will take the volume offline. 20 Maintaining the HP P4800 G2 solution ...