I'm looking for some assistance in creating a new RAID5 and logical drive from 4 new 900Gb SAS drives recently added to a HP DL380 G7 server using the HPACUCLI command.
There is already a RAID1 consisting of x2 146Gb drives that contavins the ESXi 5.1 install
And a RAID5 array consisting of x12 300Gb drives on a HP MAS DAS device
When I I run "controller all show config" from HPACUCLI you can see the x2 146Gb RAID1, the x4 new 900Gb SAS and the x12 300GB drives
Here is the output.....
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C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware vSphere CLI>esxcli.exe -u root -p ??????
--server=10.10.x.x hpacucli cmd -q "controller all show config"
FIRMWARE UPGRADE REQUIRED: A firmware update is recommended for this controller
to prevent rare potential data write errors on a
RAID 1 or RAID 1+0 volume in a scenario of
concurrent background surface analysis and I/O write
operations. Please refer to Customer Advisory
c01587778 which can be found at hp.com.
Smart Array P410i in Slot 0 (Embedded) (sn: 500143801029E340)
array A (SAS, Unused Space: 0 MB)
logicaldrive 1 (68.3 GB, RAID 1, OK)
physicaldrive 1I:1:1 (port 1I:box 1:bay 1, SAS, 72 GB, OK)
physicaldrive 1I:1:2 (port 1I:box 1:bay 2, SAS, 72 GB, OK)
unassigned
physicaldrive 1I:1:3 (port 1I:box 1:bay 3, SAS, 900.1 GB, OK)
physicaldrive 1I:1:4 (port 1I:box 1:bay 4, SAS, 900.1 GB, OK)
physicaldrive 2I:1:5 (port 2I:box 1:bay 5, SAS, 900.1 GB, OK)
physicaldrive 2I:1:6 (port 2I:box 1:bay 6, SAS, 900.1 GB, OK)
SEP (Vendor ID PMCSIERA, Model SRC 8x6G) 250 (WWID: 500143801029E34F)
Smart Array P800 in Slot 1 (sn: P98690D9SU41H8)
array A (SAS, Unused Space: 0 MB)
logicaldrive 1 (1.1 TB, RAID 5, OK)
logicaldrive 2 (279.4 GB, RAID 5, OK)
logicaldrive 3 (1.4 TB, RAID 5, OK)
physicaldrive 2E:1:1 (port 2E:box 1:bay 1, SAS, 300 GB, OK)
physicaldrive 2E:1:2 (port 2E:box 1:bay 2, SAS, 300 GB, OK)
physicaldrive 2E:1:3 (port 2E:box 1:bay 3, SAS, 300 GB, OK)
physicaldrive 2E:1:4 (port 2E:box 1:bay 4, SAS, 300 GB, OK)
physicaldrive 2E:1:5 (port 2E:box 1:bay 5, SAS, 300 GB, OK)
physicaldrive 2E:1:6 (port 2E:box 1:bay 6, SAS, 300 GB, OK)
physicaldrive 2E:1:7 (port 2E:box 1:bay 7, SAS, 300 GB, OK)
physicaldrive 2E:1:8 (port 2E:box 1:bay 8, SAS, 300 GB, OK)
physicaldrive 2E:1:9 (port 2E:box 1:bay 9, SAS, 300 GB, OK)
physicaldrive 2E:1:10 (port 2E:box 1:bay 10, SAS, 300 GB, OK)
physicaldrive 2E:1:11 (port 2E:box 1:bay 11, SAS, 300 GB, OK)
physicaldrive 2E:1:12 (port 2E:box 1:bay 12, SAS, 300 GB, OK, spare)
Enclosure SEP (Vendor ID HP, Model MSA60) 120 (WWID: 5001438002687FA5, Port:
2E, Box: 1)
Expander 121 (WWID: 5001438002687F80, Port: 2E, Box: 1)
Expander 121 (WWID: 5001438002687F80, Port: 2E, Box: 1)
SEP (Vendor ID HP, Model P800) 122 (WWID: 500110A0004D103E)
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I need a HPACUCLI command that will create a new RAID5 array and logical disk with the x4 900G SAS drives with out interfering with the 2 exisiting arrays and hpefully do this with out rebooting the server in into the BIO RAID config utility if I don't have to.