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• How can I partition logical volume from 5.5 TB Raid on a ML350 G6 server for ESX data warehouse creation

  Today, we received a new ML350 G6 server. It has 8 hard disks of size 1 TB each.i have created a volume unique raid 6 and raid is 5.5 TB usable for the logical unit space. The server starts with a picture of ESXi 3.5 on a USB key provided by HP with the server. When I login and checking configuration& gt; stroage adapters& gt; pi400 Smart array for physical disk controller, I couldn't see any disk. I know that ESX will not support the volume size more than 2 C.T.

  I don't want to create a raid volume children (example two raid 6 volumes with 4 hard drives), because it will reduce the amount of disk space, I can use.

  Is it possible to create 3 partitions on this volume 5.5 TB raid with the configs below?. All the tools that everyone knows that I can use to create partitions? I tried GPARTED, but it doesn't work

  LUN 0-2 TO

  1-2 TO LUN

  LUN 2-1, 5 TB

  You cannot have a drive that is larger than 2 TB.

  Create multiple logical disks, not different partitions.

  André

• ProLiant ML350 G6: How to add a new disk to my server

  I have a HP ProLiant ML350 G6 in the HDD rack before I have some unused slots and I want to fill them with some news readers. How do I do that? I do not have a "cage" where to put a standard 3.5 "drive, so I wonder if I need to buy the whole cage + reader package.

  In addition, can I organize the disks in any way I want, more than one RAID volume with a simple bracket and a single raid card? I guess Yes, but I want to make sure, and ask is free

  Thank you

  Hello

  This is the HP consumer forum, and we do not treat the servers and Linux.

  HP has an official presence on this forum other than for administration and moderation. The help you receive is mainly by volunteers.

  You can get assistance on the HP Enterprise Business Forum since you have a class business PC.

  However, these Manuals can be useful.

• Server crashes every few minutes - HP ML350 G4 running SBS 2003

  Dear all,

  We have a SBS 2003 server that has serious problems for a few weeks now. The problem is that the server hangs for a short period of time and comes back to life. Freeze happens several times per hour and lasts 50-60 seconds each time and then come back to life. During the freeze:

  • Users get the contextual ScreenTip in Outlook by saying that Exchange is trying to retrieve data.
  • Shared disks cannot be opened.
  • Data from the server recovery software also seem to be block/gel.
  • Desktop connection to the server remotely continues but cannot perform all actions (the mouse pointer moves but can't choose anything).
  • During the freeze period, the following events are generated in the system log:
  • Through logs event ID: 7011 always seems to be recorded at the time the freeze occurs. It is said, ' Timeout (60000 milliseconds) waiting for a response from the NtFrs service transaction'.
  • Also in the application log this error is found: event ID 17052 Source: MSSQLSERVER - Scheduler 0 (and other times 1) seems to be suspended. SPID 0, ECID 0, UMS 0x03640BC8 context

  • When the server is started, it takes 40 minutes on "computer application settings.
  • When the server is restarted or shutdown, it takes about 15-20 minutes.

  • The Task Manager shows the system idle process using 99% cpu.

  A bit on the server:

  OS: Windows SBS 2003 Premium Edition - SP2 with Exchange 2003 SP2, SQL 2000, SharePoint Services 2.0
  Hardware: HP ProLiant ML350 G4
  Smart Array 641 controller
  6 x 146.8 GB HARD drive (10K rpm), configured in 3 logical drives
  RAID 1 + 0 is used
  x 1 Intel Xeon 3.0 GHz processor
  4 GB of RAM installed - SBS 32-bit use only 3.5 GB

  Antivirus: CA Threat Manager

  Backup: Tape using software of Yosemite

  Diagnostics of hardware (using the diag HP tools) are no problem. Green LEDs appear on all hard drives 6. I have already updated all the device drivers and system firmware using the HP tools. HP Array Configuration Utility shows no problem at all. I've taken this with HP support, but eventually they said there is no hardware problems and I need to contact Microsoft.

  Help, please!

  Hello

  I calculated that it started happening since I followed the CA Tech suggestion on how to fix the CA anti-virus on the server to allow users to save documents directly to readers shared network. Fix of CA has its side effects. Over a period of 2 months, there are more than half a million 4 KB files generated in the folder Temp of Windows. Now temp was so complete in terms of number of files that whenever server had to do anything at the time it would freeze. Windows wouldn't let me empty the temp folder. It does not yet show the files. Only, we could see and calculate the files in DOS mode. UBCD4Win served and slip streamed with Windows XP Setup program to create a bootable file. After starting the server on the boot media, all Temp files have been removed from command line. It took more than an hour only to delete all these files. After emptying the temp started server within 10-15 minutes.

  Then, the next step was to find the program that has been the creation of 6 temporary files every minute. Explore processes and Process Monitor was used to identify the culprit. Is CA Host - based Intrusion Prevention Manager that was purchased as part of the package of threat Manager CA eTrust. It was found by using an instance of Java under a Wrapper process and the creation of hss_tmp * in C:\Windows\Temp .dat files. Disabling services CA HIPS resolved again filling of the temp. There is no problem of gel and server works very well.

  Deactivation of all the CA package has not prevented the freeze occurs because the temp folder too cultivated was still in place and SBS OS was always access them as well stop on time.

  I hope this can help someone in the future.

  Abid

• Restore virtual machines after building the new RAID array

  Hi all

  I am new to the virtual machines, so I'm sorry for the newbie question. Currently, I have a HP ML350 G6 ESXi 5.0.0 running on 4 GB Flash hosting SD cards two virtual machines and licenses for 5 Essentials vSphere and vCenter Server 5 Essentials. I also have a RAID5 configuration with drives SAS 146 GB (6). I intend to remove all six readers and their replacement by 300 GB disks and build a RAID6 array. My question is, what would be the best practice to move the two VMS in the current RAID array to the new RAID array? Wouldn't be also simple to make backups of virtual machines or clones, exchanging the readers, the new array of construction and restoring virtual machines? If someone could point me in the right direction would be great!

  Thank you all!

  Personally, I would go with backup & restore. In addition, use the downtime to upgrade the firmware of the host (HP published recently a few critical fixes on the RAID controller and some models of HARD drive).

  What I would do - to avoid any problem - is to remove the host ESXi, vCenter, replace disks, update the firmware, re - install ESXi and as final step add the host to vCenter again.

  André

• Drive very poor IO performance ProLiant ML350 G6

  Greetings,

  I began to administer a VMs works two Proliant ML350 G6. We used the same material since ESXi 3. The Smart Array is configured in RAID 5, which means that we have installed a write cache (256 MB). I opened the case to find that we DO NOT have a battery. I did a few tests using HD Tune running right on one of the virtual machines during after hours (very low load on the system) and the disk i/o was horrible! About 35 MBs write average! WHAT? After having poking around on the web, I've learned that without an update of the battery pack, the controller refuses to apply it's full hardware acceleration and rewrite the features. ESXi also does not implement any kind of acceleration of the reduction and relies totally on the controller in order to give him. in any case, to have bought a 1 GB FBWC (write Flash based Cache) would give us battery performance?

  In fact, I'm impressed, you saw 35 Mbps without BBWC/FBWC! Usually, you would see something between 10-15 MB/s in write mode and troughs (without BBWC/FBWC) and > 80 MB/s (more probably) write back (with BBWC/FBWC) mode.

  André

• Cannot install ESXi 4.1 on HP ML350 G6

  I'm not able to install ESXi 4.1 on my HP ML350 G6 server.  I have 2 Intel Xeon 5650processor w/6 hearts each, 16 GB memory, RAID 1 + 0 on HP Smart Array P410i controller channel with 6 X 300 GB SAS 10 K disks.  The DVD-ROM is SATA.  The boots just fine CD and get all the way to choose the disk to install it on, but it shows as a remote disc and when I proceed with the installation I get this message:

  The installation operation has encounterd a fatal error:

  Cannot find the image of the installed system. This is due to the image, not been correctly mounted the CD-ROM not supported.

  Curve ball.  I am able to install ESX 4.1 and was able to connect vSphere Client to configure the host.  Why no ESXi?

  I appreciate all the help, I tried as much as I know how.

  Matt

  have you tried to mount the ISO through the ILO instead of using a physical disk? also check the MD5 of the download to make sure it is ok

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• ESXI 4.1 will not detect the RAID 5 array

  Hi all

  I try to install ESXI on a HP ML350 G6.  When I configure the table as a RAID 5, ESXI detects the logical drive, but watch used and 0 bytes of free space I would install it.  If I reformat the table to a RAID 10, ESXI it detects perfectly.  I really need to have it configured as a RAID 5.  Any ideas?  Thank you.

  -Mike

  Welcome to the Forums - what size are a table you are trying to create? VMware ESX and ESXi can access tables less then 2 TB in size-

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• Thoughts on ESXi and HP ML350 G5

  Hi everyone, I'm price a few options to help get a friends raised business and am looking at a ML350 G5 that I can't seem to find in the HCL... here the list of HW, can someone please report any issues? Would be greatly appreciated... I can't ESXi installed and working properly on this box?

  HP Proliant ML350 G5 E5420 Quad Core Dual Xeon/2.50 Ghz

  2 x HP 8 GB PC2-5300 of FBD 2x4GB Kit (16GB total)

  2 x 250GB 7.2 k HP MDL SATA (system mirrored disks)

  3 x 500GB 7.2 k HP MDL SATA (Raid 5)

  Controller HP Smart Array P400 RAID 0/1/1 + 0 / 5

  HP NC364T PCIe Gigabit Server adapter 4Pt

  350/370/380 G5 HP Redundant Power Supply Kit

  HP Hot Plug red. Ventilation ML350 G5 Kit

  Workload will be - 1 Windows 2003 Ent so that DC, 1 Windows 2003 Ent as a member for business app server, 1 Server mgmt etc., ePO, WSUS, Windows 2003 Ent

  Could probably evolve into 8 GB I guess

  Thank you!

  This should be OK. You have the option of BBWC (battery backup). Have a search for BBWC. I don't remember the situations, but it can cause slow transfer times if you don't. HP limited SATA transfer rate if something you can do to speed things up.

• synchronization of the RAIDs at 2 different locations

  I recently started to work in 2 different places and must find a way to keep my 15 TB + of the continually changing and growing data (in RAID 0 training photoshop files) practice at both locations at any time.

  My best idea so far is to get a 15 TB portable working drive that I bring with me back and then continue to a RAID of TIME stationary MACHINE at each location who save permanently this portable work in car...

  If anyone has a better idea, please advise.

  Keep your valuable data on a striped RAID is dangerous. Sometimes interlaced RAID adds speed, but in case of disk failure, is likely to result in a total loss of all data without hope of a partial recovery.

  Put data of Time Machine on a mirrored RAID is a loss of readers.

  Time Machine can alternate automatically readers to keep two (or more) independent backup series. Just add the second drive and it automatically alternates.

  As always, you can use AppleRAID or an external RAID enclosure for the construction of a concatenated RAID set that resembles a drive for Mac OS X.

• RAID is no longer present in the storage "about this mac".

  After upgrading to Sierra my SoftRAID(4) drive does not appear in the about this mac storage section. I asked soft raid and their answer is that it's an apple problem

  If you haven't already done so, disconnect the SoftRAID(4) drive and stop your Mac. While the Mac is turned off, connect the player SoftRAID(4). Then restart your Mac. See if it appears in disk utility.

• Time Machine NAS RAID

  Goal: large, reliable Time Machine back-up.

  (No purpose: archiving.) I do that separately on optical carriers per year, double copies, which goes off site. I understand that optical media can degenerate over time - even if some are marketed as "of archive-quality" - and therefore based on a cloud of archiving is the way to go but for now he takes too much bandwidth and I'm worried about security. I recently got a burner external blu - ray: exceptional.)

  Question: can I use RAID for Time Machine if I connect by USB directly on my computer?

  Issue 1: reliability external drive. This has happened twice that I bought a property, brand, large external hard drive and was prematurely fail at a difficult time. My local computer guru said "it happens" and is "unpredictable" and just buy a new one, most won't. Or, for better quality, get a NAS - network attached storage that can be attached, they have the temperature control, mine is a RAID 2 discs, so there is that the degree of redundancy - but not, I learn, protect against a corrupt Time Machine backup and that can happen, or power increases (although it is on a high-tech power bar) , or theft, etc.

  Problem 2: using NAS, which I connected to a Terminal Airport Express via an Ethernet cable - if connected to the computer by WiFi - the Time Machine backup becomes a "sparsebundle" (set of files, in fact), encrypted file with password (?) drive access. However, this was work and I did a full restore of your data (no 'system') the other day with Migration Wizard when I got a new hard drive installed in my old iMac (also upgraded at the time of 10.9 to 10.11). It took over all night, but the wonder of wonders, it chugged along and finished and seems fine. (I have not checked tens of thousands of files individually!)

  (My SIN explicitly supports Time Machine, and I checked that box in the configuration of the SIN, and it seemed to work.) I didn't have to leave the mounted drive. Time Machine found hourly and used invisibly in the background.)

  Problem 3: I have rename my hard drives for some reason any and do not remember quite what its name was. I wonder if this is part of my problem (read more). But there is a method in Time Machine to 'Browse other discs of backup. " I was looking for a file that I kept outside my usual login "user" and so had not been returned when I used Migration Assistant for data recovery only.

  However, when I do this, then nothing is there. I've learned that sometimes, with an encrypted sparsebundle, wireless backup, you will have to let Time Machine sit for a few minutes before the back-ups start to appear, but now, with my new hard drive (with a new name) and the new version of the OS, there is simply nothing; just 'today' that shows only my current hard drive status. Obviously, there was something, or Migration Assistant wouldn't have worked, but during the inspection of the backup via Time Machine, the file seems to be here (whatever_my_computer - name_was.sparsebundle), but it is empty.

  If I just try to navigate in the Finder to the sparsebundle NAS Time Machine, I can find it but not to open it. Double click: nothing happens. It is not that I forgot to connection settings, this is what it do not ask me for them.

  This happened to me twice and the first time was the day after archiving (luck and good planning) and I thought that it is a kind suddenly lucky, but now it happened again.

  So, I tried a bit of searching and not found a clear answer to my question above. I do not see these links:

  TEM http://www.petemarovichimages.com/2013/11/24/Never-use-a-RAID-As-Your-Backup-sys.

  https://support.Apple.com/en-CA/HT201250

  https://discussions.Apple.com/thread/3837784?start=0 & tstart = 0

  https://discussions.Apple.com/thread/7448896?start=0 & tstart = 0

  https://discussions.Apple.com/thread/5849068?TSTART=0

  Of them, it seems that a NAS that has an explicit ability to Time Machine might work (mine did), but is not fully functional, not approved by Apple and is completely unpredictable. My limits are described above. (I work around them).

  However, moving forward: I have this RAID 2 discs sitting around, seemingly more reliable than a drive external non-temperature controlled, and I wonder about the connection by USB directly on my computer. What is the downside of this? That is my question. Who will 'normally' work as a Time Machine backup external drive?

  Another option is to get two large external hard drives and the value of Time Machine to switch between the two. I have not tried, but apparently it was possible for the last iterations little Mac OS X.

  I have important data that requires careful management.

  Thank you all,

  Charles

  I use a direct attached Drobo (it is a very easy to use RAID device).

  I've always had problems with Time Machine on the network, so I stopped using it in this way. I've never had problems with the TimeMachine and direct-attached storage.

  With the Drobo if a disk goes bad, I buy a replacement and hot it swap for the failed drive.

• Backup Restore Time Machine does not see RAID external drive

  Hi all

  I have a problem with my iMac restore from a Time Machine backup, and I was wondering if anyone else had the same problem already.

  I had to reinstall OS X El Capitan from scratch, based on education, I received Support from Apple. That worked without problems and my iMac works fine. However, I wanted to restore it to how it was before, using Time Machine. I keep my backups on a LaCie 5big Thunderbolt 2 and never had any problems with it.

  To restore the system, I followed the instructions on the Support page. I restarted my system in recovery mode and selected the "restore from Time Machine backup". Unfortunately the LaCie 5big does not appear on the list of drives, so I'm stuck... When you use the system in normal mode, the external RAID is visible and Time Machine stores backups on it without any problem.

  Any of you are familiar with this problem? I would be very grateful if you could help me with this problem!

  Kind regards

  Valerio

  Hello

  -While the system is booted in recovery mode, confirm that the Lacie 5big network is visible in disk utility.   You will need to disconnect / reconnect the Thunderbolt cable to the Lacie 5big be detected.

  -Once seen, a new attempt to restore from Time Machine backup.

  See you soon

• Mac Mini server RAID spoil

  This follows a previous thread of mine.  Previously, the Mac mini server (2009, 3.1 I think) would not start.  The Apple logo and the spinning wheel seems forever.

  I found the boot disk and a USB optical drive and so I went in disk utility.  I got the software RAID 1 set up.  Hard drives were fine, physically, but the whole RAID said it is "degraded" and one of the volumes said it failed.  I tried rebuilding it but failed.  I did not delete the volume down, instead, I deleted the whole RAID, thinking that I would be able to start the disks as standalone.  Instead, or volumes are mounted, they not only mount when I click Mount, and when I turn on the machine, I now get the folder with the?.  No volumes appear when I hold down the option key when starting.  I tried discs of fixation of the Terminal and he says they were mounted with success, but they were not.  I must be missing something in the commands, I don't know them well.  I tried to create a new RAID array, but he said that all the data would be deleted.  At any given time, two RAID volumes said that they failed, and then the RAID array would not appear or appear offline as opposed to gradient.

  I screwed myself by removing the raid array?  Both drives are dismantled and their partition type is "Apple_RAID_Offline".

  Can I fix this and back up my data?

  I fixed readers are not mounted or named myself.  They are (were) mounted as an independent non-RAID drives.  They needed to be repaired and could not repair one of them says however, disk utility.  Disk utility also told me at my backup files and wipe the readers.  How can I back up my files if I can't start the machine?  There is no Finder on Mac OS X Server installation disc.

  Any suggestions?

  Solution to readers being dismantled: https://www.27partners.com/2010/07/repairing-appleraid/

• How to restore from a backup after creating a new Raid 0?

  OK so I have time machines of my old hard drive, installed my new and raid 0' ed them. Now I Steelworkers my bootable thumbdtive (who was be Yosemite) to start my el capitan backup and it crashes at the end. After the restoration, the computer stops and recharge, but then crashes to the screen with the apple logo. Someone knows the right way that I should be restore? I tried just do a plain redownliad of my bootable disk but it says it did not work and may have been corrupted. I tried deleti g and recreate my raid 0, the same message... Looks like that because raid 0 for Mac will not create a recovery partition, I do a recovery Internet now just to recharge the mac from scratch... Any ideas on how I should address?

  Hi Isakale,

  I understand that you're having trouble for OS X installed and restored from your Time Machine backup. In a situation where you work with a configuration of non standard volume for your OS X installation, you can consider installing OS X of the recovery of the Internet, the upgrade to the desired version of Mac OS X via the App Store, then your Time Machine data migration using the Migration Wizard, rather than recovery.

  Migration Wizard copies all your files to your new Mac so that you do not have to the do it manually. If your files are currently on a Windows PC, follow the steps in the migration of the PC instead. If your new Mac uses OS X Mountain Lion or earlier, follow the steps of Mountain Lion instead.

  Move your content to a new Mac
  https://support.Apple.com/en-us/HT204350

  Recent Macs include the ability to run directly from a Web OS X Recovery version. Your Mac will automatically use this feature when the recovery on the startup disk system is not available. For example, if your boot drive is a problem, or if your boot drive has been replaced or deleted. Recovery of the Internet allows you to start your Mac directly from Apple servers. This system starts running a quick test of your memory and the hard disk to check for hardware problems.

  Recovery of the Internet initially asking you to select a Wi - Fi network and enter a password for the network if necessary. Then Internet recovery downloads and starts from a system recovery image. From there on, offers the same options and utilities like system recovery on a startup disk.

  Some Mac shipped with OS X Snow Leopard can use Internet after installation of OS X Lion or later and a software update.

  OS X: on OS X Recovery
  https://support.Apple.com/en-us/HT201314

  If you want to reinstall the version of Mac OS X included with your Mac, store the command-Option-R at the start instead. This starts your Mac recovery of the Internet.

  How to reinstall OS X on your Mac

  https://support.Apple.com/en-us/HT204904

  Sincerely