Hp Smart Storage Administrator Manuel d'utilisateur Page 1

HP Smart Storage Administrator User Guide Abstract This document identifies, and provides instructions for, the tools available for configuration,

Operations 10 Operations Accessing HP SSA in the offline environment To access and launch the HP SSA GUI in an offline environment, use one of the f

Operations 100 Error code Error message Comment or clarification 3101 The SSD Smart Path command failed — 3102 Unable to lock controller. Make su

Troubleshooting 101 Troubleshooting HP Smart Storage Administrator Diagnostics Utility CLI About the utility Formerly known as the Array Diagnostics

Troubleshooting 102 o Interface o WWID o Drive model o Serial number o Firmware revision o Total blocks The SmartSSD Wear Gauge report contains

Troubleshooting 103 Field Description SSD Wear Status Indicates the SSD's wear status with one of the following messages: • OK • Not Sup

Troubleshooting 104 Launching the utility in CLI mode 1. Click Start>All Programs>HP System Tools>HP Smart Storage Administrator Diagnosti

Troubleshooting 105 Identifying and viewing SmartSSD Wear Gauge report files The SmartSSD Wear Gauge report output archive contains the following fi

Troubleshooting 106 Drive arrays and fault-tolerance methods Drive arrays The capacity and performance of a single physical (hard) drive is adequate

Troubleshooting 107 With an array controller installed in the system, the capacity of several physical drives can be combined into one or more virtu

Troubleshooting 108 The group of physical drives containing the logical drive is called a drive array, or just array (denoted by An in the figure).

Troubleshooting 109 • RAID 50 configurations tolerate one failed drive in each parity group. • RAID 6 configurations tolerate two failed drives at

Operations 11 Booting from the ISO image on a drive, on a key, or through iLO provides the same GUI interface. The user can select to run Offline HP

Troubleshooting 110 RAID 1 and RAID 1+0 (RAID 10) In RAID 1 and RAID 1+0 (RAID 10) configurations, data is duplicated to a second drive. When the ar

Troubleshooting 111 • No data is lost when a drive fails, as long as no failed drive is mirrored to another failed drive. • Up to half of the phys

Troubleshooting 112 In each mirrored trio, the physical drives that are not busy answering other requests answer any read requests that are sent to

Troubleshooting 113 • More drive capacity is usable than with RAID 1+0—parity information requires only the storage space equivalent to one physica

Troubleshooting 114 RAID 50 RAID 50 is a nested RAID method in which the constituent hard drives are organized into several identical RAID 5 logical

Troubleshooting 115 RAID 60 RAID 60 is a nested RAID method in which the constituent hard drives are organized into several identical RAID 6 logical

Troubleshooting 116 Item RAID 0 RAID 1+0 RAID 5 RAID 6 (ADG) RAID 1(0) (ADM) Alternative name Striping (no fault tolerance) Mirroring Distr

Troubleshooting 117 Neither of these alternative fault-tolerance methods supports online spares or automatic data recovery, nor do they support auto

Troubleshooting 118 Diagnosing array problems Diagnostic tools To troubleshoot array problems and generate feedback about arrays, use the following

Troubleshooting 119 • German (http://www.hp.com/support/ProLiant_TSG_gr) • Dutch (http://www.hp.com/support/ProLiant_TSG_nl) • Japanese (http://w

Operations 12 • A good, working knowledge of PXE and TFTP • A network with a DHCP server on it • A TFTP server configured on the same network as

Optional components 120 Optional components HP Secure Encryption HP Secure Encryption is a controller-based, enterprise-class data encryption soluti

HP Smart Array Advanced Pack 121 HP Smart Array Advanced Pack About SAAP SAAP is a collection of additional and advanced controller features embedde

Acronyms and abbreviations 122 Acronyms and abbreviations ACU Array Configuration Utility ADG Advanced Data Guarding (also known as RAID 6) ADM Ad

Acronyms and abbreviations 123 RIS reserve information sector SAAP Smart Array Advanced Pack SAS serial attached SCSI SATA serial ATA SSP Select

Documentation feedback 124 Documentation feedback HP is committed to providing documentation that meets your needs. To help us improve the documenta

Index 125 A action mode, HPSSASCRIPTING 78 ACU scripting 79, 83 additional information 121 ADG (advanced data guarding) 115 advanced configu

Index 126 example CLI script, creating logical drive 59 exit on error 71 expanding an array 64, 84 expanding an array, HP SSA Scripting 84 E

Index 127 PXELinux configuration 12 PXELinux setup 12 Q querying a device 50 QueueDepth 82 R RAID 43, 66, 87 RAID configuration 43, 66 R

Operations 13 The paths to the files on the TFTP server are vmlinuz and initrd.img. You must modify them to include any directories or naming conven

Operations 14 Accessing HP SSA in the online environment To access, install, and launch HP SSA in the online environment, you must download the HP S

Operations 15 o For remote mode, enter: hpssa– start HP SSA launches in a browser window. 2. For a list of options, enter the following: hpssa- h

Operations 16 o Optional: Under Preferred Language, select a language or leave as System Default. o Click Exit. 2. On the server that you want t

Operations 17 Icon and key stroke legend The HP SSA GUI includes many icons (also defined in the Help file) to help with identification and troubles

Operations 18 Navigating the GUI When you open HP SSA, the Welcome screen appears. The following elements are visible:

Operations 19 • The Smart Storage Administrator quick navigation menu is in the top, left-hand corner of the screen. Clicking the down arrow displa

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Operations 20 The Configure screen displays the GUI elements from the Welcome screen and lists available actions, status messages, more detailed inf

Operations 21 • Devices and Tools—This panel, at left, displays systems, controllers, arrays, physical drives, logical drives, and a cache and lice

Operations 22 • Diagnostics Report • SmartSSD Wear Gauge Report When selecting either report, the available actions on the Actions panel include

Operations 23 Configuration tasks From the Configure screen, you can perform tasks related to controllers, arrays, physical drives, and logical driv

Operations 24 Item Tasks Unused space Create Logical Drive More Information Physical drive Erase Drive** View Status Alerts Unassigned drives Creat

Operations 25 5. Do one of the following: o Configure an additional controller. Repeat steps 3 through 5. o Click Exit HP SSA. Performing a Confi

Operations 26 HP SSD Smart Path HP SSD Smart Path enables an optimized data path to high performance solid state drives. The optimized path bypasses

Operations 27 By default, HP SSA Smart Path is enabled on SSD drives. 8. Under Configure>Devices, choose the array with the logical drive(s) yo

Operations 28 For more information, see "Using the HP SSA GUI (on page 16)." 2. Open the Configure panel by doing one of the following: o

Operations 29 3. To create an array, select from the list of available SATA SSD drives listed. When finished, click Create Array. 4. The Create Lo

Contents 3 Contents Overview ...

Operations 30 Changing the Spare Activation Mode The spare activation mode feature enables the controller firmware to activate a spare drive under t

Operations 31 3. Select a controller from the Devices menu. 4. Select Create Array from the Actions panel. The Array details screen appears. 5. S

Operations 32 10. Click Save. 11. A confirmation screen appears. Click Yes to continue. 12. Click Manage Spare Drives to make additional selectio

Operations 33 4. Click Controller Cache in the Cache Manager menu. 5. Click Caching Settings. 6. Select one or more logical drives to be cached.

Operations 34 7. Verify caching settings. 8. Click OK. About HP SmartCache HP SmartCache enables solid state drives to be used as caching devices

Operations 35 3. Select Cache Manager from the Tools menu. 4. Click Enable HP SmartCache in the Actions menu. 5. Select one or more physical driv

Operations 36 7. A pop-up window appears, indicating certain features will not be available with HP SmartCache enabled. If you want to continue, cli

Operations 37 12. Smart Cache Details, SmartCache Statistics, and Device Path appear. Click Finish to proceed. The SmartCache is created for the Lo

Operations 38 4. Under actions, click Add License Key. 5. Enter the license key number. 6. Click Save. Working with mirrored arrays Among the ad

Operations 39 4. From the Arrays menu, select the appropriate array. 5. Select Manage Data Drives from the Actions panel. 6. Under Available Array

Contents 4 Fault-tolerance methods ...

Operations 40 Creating a split mirror backup This task splits an array that consists of one or more RAID 1, RAID 1+0, RAID 1 (ADM), or RAID 10 (ADM)

Operations 41 o Re-mirror the array and roll back to the contents of the backup array. Discard existing data. This option re-creates the mirrored ar

Operations 42 • All existing logical drives in the source array must be in OK state. • The destination array must have sufficient capacity to hold

Operations 43 4. A new window appears, confirming each array will contain a single RAID 0 logical drive. Click Yes to continue.

Operations 44 5. A new window appears, confirming RAID 0 configuration. Click Finish to complete. Diagnostic tasks The HP SSA Diagnostics feature

Operations 45 • View SmartSSD Wear Gauge Report • Save SmartSSD Wear Gauge Report For the view tasks, HP SSA generates and displays the report or

Operations 46 The Actions panel for Array Diagnostic Report appears. 5. Click one of the task buttons: o If you select View Diagnostic Report, th

Operations 47 • Command mode ("Opening the CLI in Command mode" on page 47) You can make an isolated change of just one configuration par

Operations 48 a required variable and plain brackets to denote an optional variable, the structure of a typical HP SSA CLI command line is as follow

Operations 49 A typical screen response in this case could be: Available options are: 8 16 (current value) 32 64 128 (default) 256 To determine whic

Overview 5 Overview About HP SSA HP SSA is the main tool for configuring arrays on HP Smart Array controllers. It exists in three interface formats:

Operations 50 Keyword Abbreviation in HP SSA CLI Keyword Abbreviation in HP SSA CLI exitonerror eoe surfacescandelay ssd expandpriority ep surfac

Operations 51 Post Prompt Timeout: 15 secs Cache Board Present: True Cache Status: OK Accelerator Ratio: 10% Read / 90% Write Drive Write Cache: Dis

Operations 52 physicaldrive 1:1:2 (port 1:box 1:bay 2, SAS, 36 GB, OK) physicaldrive 1:1:8 (port 1:box 1:bay 8, SAS, 9.1 GB, OK) physicaldrive 1:1:1

Operations 53 where <target> is a controller with a volume that can be set as the boot volume. Example command: controller slot=1 modify bootc

Operations 54 The controller does not need to be specified because it is currently the set target. Now clear the target, reset it, and enter a few c

Operations 55 • <target> is a controller or all controllers. • <file=filename> designates the target file in which the diagnostic info

Operations 56 Example commands: => ctrl slot=5 lk=12345-65432-78787-43434-24680 delete => ctrl slot=4 add lk=9876543210222224444466666 Optimi

Operations 57 Parameter Acceptable values Comments size #|min|max|maxmbr|? This parameter determines the desired size of the logical drive. Units

Operations 58 => ctrl ch="Lab 4" pd all show In this case, the screen response is: MSA1000 at Lab 4 array A physicaldrive 1:1:12 (port

Operations 59 When moving the logical drive, you can choose one of the following destinations: • An existing array • A new array you create To mov

Overview 6 Array configuration overview Benefits of using HP SSA HP Smart Storage Administrator is an advanced utility that enables you to perform m

Operations 60 Example commands: controller slot=5 ssdpd all show controller slot=5 ssdpd all show detail Viewing SSD information The ssdinfo keywor

Operations 61 SSD Over Provisioning Optimization Access to solid state devices can be optimized by deallocating all used blocks before any data is w

Operations 62 => ctrl slot=4 array all add spares=1:5,1:7 => ctrl slot=5 array A add spares=1:1–1:5 => ctrl slot=5 array A remove spares=1:

Operations 63 where <target> is an array (or a logical drive, if the array contains only one logical drive). The forced parameter represses an

Operations 64 Like array creation and expansion, the useable space in all drives is reduced to the size of the smallest physical drive in the destin

Operations 65 one RAID 0 logical drive. For more information about RAID 0, see "RAID 0—No fault tolerance (on page 109)." Example comma

Operations 66 • If you do not specify a stripe size, the CLI uses the default stripe size value for the RAID level that you specify. Example comman

Operations 67 Changing the Rebuild Priority setting The Rebuild Priority setting determines the urgency with which the controller treats an internal

Operations 68 Changing the surface scan delay time The setting for the surface scan delay determines the time interval for which a controller must b

Operations 69 where <target> is a controller that supports drive write cache. Example command: => ctrl slot=5 modify dwc=enable Enabling

Overview 7 To identify controller-specific feature support and SAAP requirements, see the controller user guide or the HP website (http://www.hp.com

Operations 70 The backup array always contains RAID 0 logical drives. The primary array continues to be fully accessible to the OS while the backup

Operations 71 Then, enter the following command at the system command line prompt: hpssascripting -i FILENAME [-internal | -external] [-reset] -e FI

Operations 72 You can use this script as a template for your own script. Action = Configure|Reconfigure Method = Custom Controller = All|Slot [N][:

Operations 73 Sizeblocks = N ShrinkSize = N NumberOfParityGroups = N NPG (same as NumberOfParityGroups) Sectors = 32|63 StripSize = 8|16|32|64|128|2

Operations 74 Drive= 2E:1:1 OnlineSpare= No ; Logical Drive Specifications LogicalDrive= 1 RAID= 0 Size= 139979 Sectors= 32 StripeSize= 128 ArrayAcc

Operations 75 AllowPlainText= false When creating volumes, you can set an additional volume option to determine whether the volume will be encrypted

Operations 76 Category Options Description Control Action Method These options define the overall behavior of HP SSA when it processes script

Operations 77 Action mode You must specify an Action mode: • In Configure mode, you can create new arrays, but you cannot modify existing arrays. T

Operations 78 Controller You must enter a value for this option because it identifies the controller that you want to configure: • All—Configure al

Operations 79 IRPEnable The IRPEnable option controls the behavior of the controller Inconsistency Repair Policy. This option is used to tune the co

Overview 8 Procedure HP Smart Array G6 and G7 controllers HP Smart Array Gen8 controllers Split mirror backup and rollback of RAID 1, 1+0, 1 (ADM

Operations 80 The allowable cache ratios depend on the controller model and whether it has battery-backed write cache. RebuildPriority, ExpandPrior

Operations 81 • Array (on page 81) • CachingArray (on page 81) • Drive (on page 82) • DriveType (on page 82) • Join • OnlineSpareMode (on page

Operations 82 Drive You can use this option in the input file to specify new physical drives for the array. Use this option to build a new array or

Operations 83 Behavior Description AutoReplace The spare drive becomes a data drive when the rebuild is complete. AutoReplace spares cannot be sha

Operations 84 • ArrayAccelerator (on page 84) • LogicalDrive (on page 84) • CachingLogicalDrive (on page 84) • CachedLogicalDrive (on page 84) •

Operations 85 In Configure mode, HP SSA accepts the ID number of any existing logical drive. Caching logical drives and cached data drives must be o

Operations 86 When using an HP Smart Array G6 or G7 controller, some RAID levels require SAAP ("About SAAP" on page 121). RAID levels supp

Operations 87 • N—The size in MB • MAX—Uses all available unused space in the array for the logical drive. This value is the default. • MAXMBR—Cr

Operations 88 • 512—512 KB • 1024—1024 KB (supported starting with Gen8 controllers) The default strip size value depends on the action mode: • I

Operations 89 EncryptionClearConfig This command deletes all secrets and Critical Security Parameters from the controller. This command does not del

Overview 9 Future versions of HP SSA will be available as native 32-bit or native 64-bit applications, as long as 32-bit operating systems are suppo

Operations 90 EncryptionUserPasswordSet This command sets the encryption password for the User role. The command value is the password. FirmwareLo

Operations 91 <Controller ID="Slot 1"> <!-- Controller HP Smart Array P410, Firmware Version 1.99 --> <ReadCache>25</

Operations 92 <Raid>5</Raid> <Size>52478</Size> <Sectors>32</Sectors> <StripeSize>64</StripeSiz

Operations 93 <!DOCTYPE Config.document [ <!ELEMENT Config.document ( Action, Method, Controller+ ) > <!ELEMENT Action ( Configure | Rec

Operations 94 HP SSA scripting warning messages Warning code Warning message Comment or clarification 4000 License key is already installed Th

Operations 95 Error code Error message Comment or clarification combining -reset with capture mode. 2818 Invalid Method The method must be either

Operations 96 Error code Error message Comment or clarification drive ID specified in the script file already exists in the configuration. In Conf

Operations 97 Error code Error message Comment or clarification 2880 Invalid Physical Disk Type Specified — 2882 Invalid MNP delay The specified

Operations 98 Error code Error message Comment or clarification 3019 Cannot create Array - no physical disks specified HP SSA cannot create an arr

Operations 99 Error code Error message Comment or clarification 3046 This command is only available when running offline The operation requested c