I know some of you guys have the answer... I am beginning to build a scalable storage system using RA400 and RA4100 chassis, compaq fibre hubs (switches when i have more money) and Emulax 1Gb HBA's. The SAN/Shared Storage experience i have pertains to EMC's with McData fabrics. It is nothing like...

Its happened !!! I was finally able to aquire all the bits and pieces required to build a fully redundant high-availablility cluster !!! 2 x PL6400R 4 x PIII Xeon 500/1M 4GB EDO memory 4x 18GB Ultra3 drives SA5300/64 2x 66Mhz/64Bit StorageWorks Fibre Cards NC3131

I've just acquired a Smart Array 4100 with fibre channel module. I only purchased it for the drives it contains but for future reference how do I connect this to one of my existing servers. 241322-001 appears to be a 32bit fibre channel card (I'd be looking at adding this to a 1850R so no 64bit...

I've recently been running a custom Linux distribution on a variety of older Compaq Proliant servers, namely 5500 Xeon, 1850R and 3000's. Being a custom Linux variant (loosely based on RedHat 7.2) there is no support to speak of for Compaq hardware directly especially RAID cards. Is there a...

Ok.. Since you guys like some bantering...(8- I've got a few questions for you.. Now that I've had my 6400R up and running for a while, I think I need to keep my eyes open for a nice backup device for this thing (of the tape variety).. Are the DLT 70Gb drives about as good as you can get for...

Hi all, Since this a network-centric and Compaq issue, I hope it is sufficiently topical for this forum... I posted this in a HP/Compaq support forum and would appreciate any help from Usenet readers too: Greetings:

Is it possible to convert a DL380 G2 with SCSI to instead use SATA or SAS? What are the part numbers for that conversion? -- Will

Hi, I have a Proliant 1600 with a Smart Array 3200 controller and two 9.1 GB disks in a RAID 1 mirror. The controller recently failed and I have replaced it. Now when the system boots it gives me the following error: "Smart Array 3200 controller (rev A , v 4.16) 0 Logical Drives 1785-Slot 5 Drive...

Hi, We have a ML370 that has a 5 disk RAID 5 array.. One of the disks has the red light flashing and the event log says the status is "predictive failure".. I have just ordered a new drive which should be here in the next day or so.. Now for the question.. What is the procedure for replacing...

Keep seeing references to RILOE cards, I even have my eye on a cheap one being sold locally on eBay. What exactly are you able to monitor using them? I can see that they appear to be ethernet or modem capable so was looking at them as an option for monitoring Linux servers remotely which don't...

Need some clarification about arrays. 2 of my drives failed and so i pulled them out and put them back in, just to make sure. its failed again. I swapped the 2, which were in bay 3 and 4 and now bays 5-8 are not working as well. it says 5-8 are not in order and 3,4 need to be replaced. any insights...

I have a Proliant 3000 rack model with two Pentium 2-400MHz processors. They are both initialized at startup, but I don't see them in Windows 2003 server. Before Win2k3, there was a Win 2000 professional installation on the server, but that one didn't see the processor either. Any ideas on how...

I've got to many "Storage System" bays, and need to free up some space. They are similar to the "UI" without the hot-swappable power supply. Make me an offer, any offer. To ship: You pay for shipping (or pickup in North Seattle) - what the actual costs are to ship. UPS is the easiest way to...

Hi I urgently need an image of smartstart 5.50 CD to set up a Proliant 1600 server. Thanks

When you boot from the system partion (F10 when it beeps twice, and the cursor goes to the upper right) ... when you get to your first screen of choices, press CTRL+A to get into advanced mode. then, run the SCU. View the settings. From there, you will see an option to bypass, or disable the...

I am thinking of replacing my 200MHz Pentium Pro 5500 with something a bit faster. There are a lot of Xeon 5500s on eBay with 400-550 Mhz Xeons, or I have an opportunity to pick up a Proliant 7000 locally cheap. Will I be able to put the 3GB of 228471-001 256MB ram chips and the 199598-001 4.3GB...

I have just purchased a Proliant 3000 which supports PII 300/333MHz processors as well as EDO ECC DIMMs. The spec sheet states that there is an upgrade path for 100MHz processors and SDRAM, can anyone shed some light on what this might involve? Regards, Jason. --- Replace nntp with my name to...

A couple of questions regarding RAID5 arrays. I've always understood that in a RAID5 array the capacity of the array (assuming identical capacity drives) is (d*n)-d where d is the drive capacity and n is the number of drives. At what point does this rule break down? Surely there comes a...

Hi all.. I finally obtained (for free no less) a 19" (slightly higher than waist high) rack mount cabinet from someone that left at the curb over the weekend (for vultures like me) and would like to put my Proliant into it at some point.. My machine currently has the internal rails (the side that...

What are considered the standard programs for benchmarking performance of a file server these days? Ideally I would like to have some measurements not just on throughput, but on latency on trivial I/O operations like expanding a share folder. Of course I would want to see some graphs at end...