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Failed to install PureDisk 6.6 on HP DL380G5 and G6

Updated: 27 May 2010 | 1 comment
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On G6, 1 x E5530 Xeon CPU, 6GB RAM, 2 x 146GB Internal SAS HDD, Smart Array P410i
After install the SuSE Linux, reboot, and show a red screen, with error message "illegal opCode", the system halted

On G5, 2 x Quad-Core Xeon CPU, 10GB RAM, 2 x 146GB Internal SAS HDD for OS and Application, 6 x 72GB Internal SAS HDD for /Storage, Smart Array P400
After instal the SuSE Linux, reboot, no problem, then configure IP address, hostname, partitions (/, /boot and swap), then reboot again, and use browser to Configuration Wizard
Enter SPA information, license key, create disk group for /Storage......error
Error message:
initialize disk failed with: VxVM ERROR V-5-3-000: Can't open device /dev/vx/dmp/cciss!c0d1
VxVM ERROR V-5-3-000: Can't open device /dev/vx/dmp/cciss!c0d1
VxVM vxparms ERROR V-5-1-6536 error reading partition VxVM vxdisksetup ERROR V-5-2-43 cciss!c0d1: Invalid disk device for vxdisksetup

PureDisk 6.6 has one KB talking about this:
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/335406.htm

The disks will need to be configured via YaST, VEA or command line and mounted to the /Storage mount point and additional mount points as needed.
PureDisk will need to be installed and configured using the edit topology and install new storage pool scripts. Details outlined in the SPA Installation Guide available the Symantec support web site.

Anyone has experience on installing PureDisk 6.6 on DL380G5? edit_topology.sh and install_newStoragePool.sh still available on PureDisk 6.6?

Thanks very much

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2009
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VxVM does not support certain types of drives

Hi,
I had a similar problem when I installed dual port drives on a DL380 G5 server.
To resolve the problem, I had to format the partition in XFS instead of the VxFS format.
For some reason, Linux doesn't support Multipathed drives, and seem to recognise dual path drives that have been Raid configured as MultiPagthed...
This enabled me to get PureDisk working properly.

see manual install documentaiton for details on how to configure the volumes manually.

Hope this will help.