HP MSA P2000 – ‘The Disk May Contain Stale Metadata’
KB ID 0000874 Problem The call came in this morning, a client had replaced a failed drive in his SAN, (an MSA P2000 2324sa). He was asking if there was anything he needed to do. I said “Just mark it as a global spare and that should be it”. He rang back some time later to say he was still having problems. When I dialled on I could see his ‘new’ drive was marked as LEFTOVR and was flagged with the following...
Install a BBWC in a HP Proliant ML330 G6
KB ID 0000149 Problem At time of publishing I could find no information on where to clip the battery. Solution The battery clips into the side of the “Main” forward case fan. Click for Larger Image Related Articles, References, Credits, or External Links Credit to Andy Mac – who annoyingly found it in about 2 minutes after I spent at least 10!
HP MSA P2000 – Replacing a Failed Disk
KB ID 000087 Problem If you have a disk fail in one of the volumes on your HP MSA SAN, this is the process for replacing it. Note: Normal RAID rules apply, if you replace a 146GB drive with a 300GB drive, it will add it fine, but you will lose the difference. Solution 1. Remove the failed drive, and replace with the new one. 2. Connect to the web cosole of the storage array. Select the MSA > Provisioning > Manage Global spares....
HP C3000 – BL490(G6) Mezzanine Presentation
KB ID 0000230 Problem If (Like me) you struggle to understand what is mapped to what, here’s a quick pictorial view. Solution BL490 G6- Mezzanine Locations HP Blade Enclosure c3000 The Blade On board NIC’s go to Interconnect Bay1 The Blade Mezzanine1 Cards go to Interconnect Bay2 The Blade Mezzanine2 Cards go to Interconnect Bay3 and Interconnect Bay4 Related Articles, References, Credits, or External Links NA...
Installing the HP Power Agent on ESX
KB ID 0000275 Problem Assuming you already have the HP Power Monitor installed on another server (Windows or Linux) and you want to add the ESX server as a device. Solution 1. Download the HP Linux Power Agent i.e. hppm40-linux-remote-agt.tar 2. Use a utility like 7Zip to extract the files in the agent to a folder on your computers C drive. 3. Create a username and password on the ESX Server. 4. Install FastSCP on your Laptop 5. File...