HP VSA 11.0 - Stable? Ready for production?

Last Updated: 5/8/14

4/28/14

Our recently setup HP VSA 11.0 (with all available updates v11.0.00.1263.0) two node cluster just had a major glitch and rebooted all the VM's. Data loss may have occurred as well. I just opened a ticket with HP.

we will see what happens. You might want to avoid the HP VSA 11.0 (virtual storage appliance) until it gets a little more mature.

I read reviews and thought this would turn out well. it still might.

update 5/8/14

Still not sure of the the cause, but we are having PVSCSI errors in the VM vmware.log file for the HP VSA (2014)

2014-05-07T21:58:35.566Z| vcpu-1| I120: PVSCSI: scsi1:0: aborting cmd 0xf0
2014-05-07T21:58:35.566Z| vcpu-1| I120: PVSCSI: scsi1:0: aborting cmd 0xfc
2014-05-07T21:58:35.566Z| vcpu-1| I120: PVSCSI: scsi1:0: aborting cmd 0xe3
2014-05-07T21:58:35.567Z| vcpu-1| I120: PVSCSI: scsi1:0: aborting cmd 0xfd
2014-05-07T21:58:35.567Z| vcpu-1| I120: PVSCSI: scsi1:0: aborting cmd 0xec
2014-05-07T21:58:35.567Z| vcpu-1| I120: PVSCSI: scsi1:0: aborting cmd 0xf1
2014-05-07T21:58:35.567Z| vcpu-1| I120: PVSCSI: scsi1:0: aborting cmd 0xde
2014-05-07T21:58:35.567Z| vcpu-1| I120: PVSCSI: scsi1:0: aborting cmd 0xe8
2014-05-07T21:58:35.567Z| vcpu-1| I120: PVSCSI: scsi1:0: aborting cmd 0xd9
2014-05-07T21:58:35.567Z| vcpu-1| I120: PVSCSI: scsi1:0: aborting cmd 0xd2
2014-05-07T21:58:35.567Z| vcpu-1| I120: PVSCSI: scsi1:0: aborting cmd 0xd7
2014-05-07T21:58:35.567Z| vcpu-1| I120: PVSCSI: scsi1:0: aborting cmd 0xd8
2014-05-07T21:58:35.567Z| vcpu-1| I120: PVSCSI: scsi1:0: aborting cmd 0xf3
2014-05-07T21:58:35.567Z| vcpu-1| I120: PVSCSI: scsi1:0: aborting cmd 0xf7
2014-05-07T21:58:35.568Z| vcpu-1| I120: PVSCSI: scsi1:0: aborting cmd 0xf2

I'm sure it is related. We will see what vmware says.

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