HPE MSA 1040

Technical white paper Page 2
Contents
Executive summary ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 3
Intended audience ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 3
Prerequisites ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 3
Related documentation ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 3
HPE MSA 1040 controller hardware overview ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 5
HPE MSA 1040 features ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 5
HPE MSA 2040 controller hardware overview ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 6
HPE MSA 2040 features ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 6
HPE MSA 2042 features ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 7
Supported and unsupported configurations with HPE MSA 1040 and HPE MSA 2040/2042 controllers ............................................. 7
Disk speed and enclosure link speeds........................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 8
Moving between SAS, iSCSI, and Fibre Channel topologies.......................................................................................................................................................................... 8
Supported upgrade paths for the HPE MSA 1040/2040 .............................................................................................................................................................................. 9
Preliminary instructions for upgrading to the HPE MSA 1040 or HPE MSA 2040/2042 ........................................................................................... 10
Upgrade considerations ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 10
Before you begin the upgrade........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 11
Finishing the upgrade process ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 16
Upgrading to the HPE MSA 1040 or HPE MSA 2040/2042 ................................................................................................................................................................. 16
Upgrade procedure .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 16
Shut down each controller ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 16
Determine and set the IP address of the new controllers ..................................................................................................................................................................... 21
Snapshots and Remote Snap Licenses .................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 29
VMware vSphere ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 29
Retrieving the disk information before upgrading the controllers ................................................................................................................................................ 29
Deactivating the MSA VAAI Plug-in and removing the claimrules before upgrading the controllers ......................................................... 30
Post controller upgrade ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 31
Inventory datastores and VMFS VMs ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 31
Inventory RDM virtual machines .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 31
Upgrade scenarios ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 32
Scenario 1 .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 32
Scenario 2 .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 32
Scenario 3 .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 32
Appendix A ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 33
Management IP configuration ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 33
Fibre Channel and SAS host nicknames ................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 33
Volume mappings ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 34
Network Management Services .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 34
Email alerts configuration ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 34
SNMP traps configuration .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 35
Advanced Disk Settings ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 35
Advanced Cache Settings ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 35