User guide
Table Of Contents
- MSA1000 User Guide
- Contents
- About this Guide
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Operating System Specific Information
- Chapter 3: MSA1000 Setup and Sample Configurations
- Chapter 4: Operation and Management
- Chapter 5: Array Configuration Utility (ACU)
- Installing the ACU on the Server
- Accessing the ACU
- Description of Screen Regions
- Configuring a New Controller
- Modifying an Existing Controller
- Probability of Logical Drive Failure
- Chapter 6: Command Line Interface (CLI)
- CLI Overview
- CLI Setup
- Help Commands
- Display Commands
- Array Controller Configuration Commands
- LUN Management Commands
- Server Connection Commands
- Selective Storage Presentation/Access Control List Commands
- Appendix A: Regulatory Compliance Notices
- Appendix B: Electrostatic Discharge
- Appendix C: Specifications
- Appendix D: Hard Drive Arrays
- Appendix E: Recovering from Hard Drive Failure
- Appendix F: Controller Display Messages
- Appendix G: Recovery ROM and ROM Cloning
- Appendix H: SCSI ID Assignments
- Index
Introduction
3Modular SAN Array 1000 User Guide
Features of the MSA1000
Key features of the MSA1000 are summarized in Table 2.
Note: Refer to the MSA1000 website:
www.hp.com/go/msa1000
, for the most
up-to-date information on supported components and operating system versions.
Table 2: MSA1000 Features, summarized
Feature Description
Form factors HP Series rack, 4U design combining
both the controller and disk shelf
Model Rack-mountable
Hard drive types HP Ultra2 and Ultra3
1" SCSI hard disk drives
(maximum drive size: 146.8 GB)
Maximum number of drives 14 (1-inch); scalable to 42 drives with
two optional storage expansion
enclosures
Connection to host 2-Gb Fibre Channel connections, with
support for 1-Gb and 2-Gb Fibre
Channel infrastructures.
Operating systems Windows
Novell NetWare
Linux
OpenVMS
Tru64 UNIX
Controller Embedded MSA1000 Controller with
battery-backed cache
(256 MB; can be upgraded to 512 MB)
RAID configuration levels RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 1+0, RAID 5,
and Advanced Data Guarding (ADG)
Option Embedded 2 Gb/s
MSA SAN Switch 2/8
Option Embedded 2 Gb/s
MSA Hub 2/3
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