I have just added some local storage to 3 of our identical HP servers. The first 2 had the stoage added when running 5.0 and had no problems and boot up fine. Then we added a new SAN that needed updated HP drivers, so we upgraded to 5.1.0 b, everything still fine. Now I have added local storage to my 3rd server and after 12 hours of boot, its still sitting at deltadisk loaded successfully.
I am using the onboard Smart Array P410i to control SAS disks.
HP DL380 G7 - in the HCL
HP p2000 SAN - in the HCL
HP QLogic Fibre HBA - in the HCL
If I leave the fibre connected, the boot process stalls earlier at vmw_satp_alua loaded successfully.
Anyone have any idea's (other than pull the local storage, which is what I am probably going to have to do)
Cheers
Matthew