Shop HPs Online Store for all your computer hardware, accessories, printer needs the best deals. Free Shipping Easy Returns. Shop now. Par Store. Serv 7. Step by step Installation and Configuration Part 1lt UPDATE 2 1. HPs 3. Par team was gracious enough to reach out and speak to me regarding some of the hiccups I experienced. First, on the Virtual Storage processor they state that the file system error could be caused by having the wrong time on the ESX host which I can confirm is accurate. Since we were also setting up new Blade Servers the right time had not yet been set. The other issues are currently being worked on by the 3. Par team and they will be fixed by the time most see their system. I cant say enough about the guys I spoke with, they are truly passionate about the product and are the utmost professionals who will not rest until they have a perfect product. I look forward to working with them on future enhancements. Last month HP announced the long awaited baby 3. Par into their storage portfolio, the Store. Serv 7. 00. 0 series. As predicted, 3. Pars entry into the SMB storage market has created a lot of excitement for the IT departments that wanted 3. Par technology but didnt have the budget for the existing models. Since the majority of my clients are in the alternative investment space Hedge Funds, etc. Naturally, being one of the first to implement a new technology product will most likely net you some of the bugs that present themselves in the first versions of products. Since the Storeserv 7. Par products, I had no reservations recommending it to my client. One nice thing about this 3. Par is the ability for the customer to perform their own installation. Previously, only authorized 3. Par technicians were required for the initial install, setup, and configuring. However, as you will see later in this article I did run into an issue with the initial setup in the new Smartstart Setup Wizards due to a bad setup script from HP, so I had to perform the birth process from the command line via serial port. I actually prefer doing these type of procedures from the command line, since you learn a lot more about the technology that is usually hidden under the covers. The rest of this post will be dedicated to walking you through the entire setup process from installing the drives, zoning the fiber to the blade servers, and creating a virtual volume to use in VMware. Note that most of the installations steps can also be applied to the bigger P1. Pars share the common operating environment. Patch Para Fifa 09 Pc Patch on this page. Ok, lets get started my client purchased a Store. Serv 7. 20. 0 with no extra disk shelves. A simple 2. U unit with 7. TB of space was more than enough for them for now. We removed everything from the boxes and were blown away with how awesome this array looks in person. Hp 3Par Virtual Service Processor Software Dvd' title='Hp 3Par Virtual Service Processor Software Dvd' />The following are some pictures form when we first put the array together. HP3. Par Licensing documents and software. Par 7. 20. 0 freshly out of the box. Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems in 2010, and since that time Oracles hardware and software engineers have worked sidebyside to build fully integrated systems and. Find and contact HP Customer Support, download drivers, manuals and troubleshooting information for HP products, including pcs, laptops, desktops, printers, tablets. InformationWeek. com News, analysis and research for business technology professionals, plus peertopeer knowledge sharing. Engage with our community. Filter news results by type, year, and topic to find press releases, press kits, feature stories, and more in the HP Newsroom. Complete Technical Acronyms, Glossary Definitions for PC, SAN, NAS, QA, Testing, HDTV, Wireless, Linux, Embedded, Networks, Video, Digital, pharma, Unix, Video. Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. Easily share your publications and get. Front right. Store. Serv 7. 20. 0 SFF 2. GB 1. 0k hard drivesready to be installed. Rear shot of the array. Par controllers. Controllers removed from array. Controller backplane. Rear shot of the 7. Two 8. GB fiber ports on eachcontroller. Close up of the power supply units. As you can see form the pictures the Store. Serv 7. 20. 0 comes out of the box pretty much ready to go in terms of physical assembly with the hard drives being only pieces that need to be installed. We opted to go for the 2. SAS hard drives to maintain the 2. U form factor.   Included in the box were SAS cables for future disk shelf expansion, power cables, labels, software, and licensing. After taking a good look at the array, the design seems to be well thought out by HP Engineers there is even a nifty rod that doubles as a pull handlelocking mechanism for the controller nodes. Its amazing HP was able to pack this amount of power and features into a 2. U box.   On the rear of the chassis we have the two standard 1. In the middle you have your two controller nodes that house the special 3. Par ASICs, processing power via a 1. GHz chip, and your cache repository. The base configuration we ordered came with the following IO ports on each controller Two 8. Bytestoread Serial Port C#. Gb fiber ports, one RJ4. RJ4. 5 for Management, and finally three manufacturer diagnostic ports. At this point this first thing I wanted to do is make sure that we registered the product and and make sure that we obtained all pertinent license keys. As seen in the first picture the blue envelopes contain a printed paper from HP with an Entitlement Order Number EON number. You will notice that some of the EONs can be the same for different licenses which is normal due to the bundling. When you have written down all of your EONs you will need to register them on HPs licensing portal. The site will instantly send you all of the associated license keys. The keys will be entered into the 3. Par toward the end of the birth process. Next, we have to initiate the birth process of the 7. First, we are going to setup and configure the 7. Service processor  HP now supports the Service Processor in a virtualized environment and makes it super easy by providing a pre made OVF package. The OVF resides on one of the DVDs that come in the box. Fire up your v. Sphere client and connect to one of your ESXi hosts. Once you are connected navigate to File Deploy OVF template. On the source page, click browse to import the OVF from its location on the DVD, click next. On the OVF Template Details page, verify the OVF template, then click next. On the name and location page, enter a name for the virtual storage processor then click next. On the disk format page, select Thin Provision, then click next. Now click finish and check the box on the bottom to power on the VM once the deployment is complete. Now, here is where I ran into the first of my two major issues with the array setup, which I attributed to poor HP quality control. So, when I booted up the v. SP the Linux OS ran through the standard file system check during boot it stopped and informed me that the file system wasnt consistent and needed to repaired oh great lt SEE TOP OF POST FOR UPDATE THIS ISSUE WAS DUE TO MY ESX HOSTS TIME BEING WRONG Since I was probably one of the first HP resellers in the world to set up a 7. I realized that finding someone at HP to actually acknowledge this issue and help me would be a daunting task. At the end, it actually worked out well. After about two hours of navigating through different storage support groups I finally found a very knowledgeable and helpful engineer in Colorado who saw this issue in HPs internal training classes. Even though the error gives you some guidance on the switches that you should use with the fsck command he advised to use some different ones. He had me enter in the following command without the quotes to repair the file system  fsck yvf devsda I hit enter and let it run, after it ran through I typed in reboot as depicted below. Now that the Service Processors file system is repaired it should now be in an operational state. We need to connect to the SP via a web browser to start the birth process. The SP received an IP address via DHCP which you can discover by going to the summary tab for the VM under the v. Sphere client.   Now, in your browser type the web address as follows https IPspSp. Setup. Wizard. html  This should get you to the Service processor setup wizard as seen in the below picture.