HP MSA Storage P2000 G3 - assigning new IP address using SSH

1. Login to  management console using SSH



2.  Show the current IP address setting using following command

  show network-parameter


3.  Change IP address of controller A using following command

set network-parameters ip <IP_ADDRESS> netmask <NETMASK> gateway <GATEWAY> controller a


4. Restart controller A

restart mc a



5. Change IP address of contoller B using following command

set network-parameters ip <IP_ADDRESS> netmask <NETMASK> gateway <GATEWAY> controller b


6. restart controller B

restart mc a

RHEL 6.5 partition 3TB harddisk using gparted

RHEL 6.5 partition 3TB harddisk using gparted


 For my senario,the fdisk -l shows 3TB hdd connected as /dev/sdb


1. So started parted using ,
           parted /dev/sdb

2.  create gpt disk label,
           mklabel gpt

3. change unit to TB
           unit TB

4.  create 3TB partition
         mkpart primary 0.00TB 3.00TB

5. fdisk -l , shows that a new partition /dev/sdb1 is created of 3TB in size

5.   To format as EXT4 filesystem,
               mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb1