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Hello, finally I found solution and I belive, that it can help someone too. Please, see below:
If you need change RAID on your HP machines and if you have HP Smart Array P410i Controller and especially Battery on HPSA1 and Fully Charged than you can use LIVE/ONLINE migration of RAID without shutdown of your VMWare host. For this work you need to connect on console of VMWare host server (putty or others...).
Manual of needed commands:
vmware -v
//show version of your host installed
esxcli software vib list
//show your installations in VMWare host - you need to have installed HP tool hpacucli-9.40-12.0.vib or other versions this tools
// this installation need a reboot of vmware host so, good is install it in time of update your vmware for example
esxcli software vib install -d /vmfs/volumes/ESX_Datastore/hp-HPUtil-esxi5.0-bundle-1.4-15.zip
//installation of HP tools from host's console
/opt/hp/hpacucli/bin/hpacucli ctrl all show config
//than you can work with hp tool in vmware host - show configuration of your RAIDs including battery status
/opt/hp/hpacucli/bin/hpacucli ctrl slot=0 modify rebuildpriority=low
/opt/hp/hpacucli/bin/hpacucli ctrl slot=0 modify rebuildpriority=high
//you can choice low mode or high mode of migration (with 2.2TB is different between migrations about 5h (low was about 3h, high was about 8h) )
/opt/hp/hpacucli/bin/hpacucli ctrl slot=0 ld 1 modify raid=5
//command for change of your RAID - in my case it was from RAID 50 to RAID 5
/opt/hp/hpacucli/bin/hpacucli ctrl slot=0 ld 2 modify size=max forced
// command for adding new free space to the one of logical volume - use maximal size
/opt/hp/hpacucli/bin/hpacucli ctrl slot=0 ld 4 modify size=500 forced
//command for adding new free space to the one of logical volume - use just size 500 MB
Also can be usefull:
/opt/hp/hpacucli/bin/hpacucli ctrl slot=0 ld 4 add drives=2:3
// add drives
/opt/hp/hpacucli/bin/hpacucli ctrl slot=0 create drives=1:13,1:14,1:15,1:16,1:17 raid=5
//add drivers with proper raid version
reference -> https://communities.vmware.com/thread/439643
If you need change RAID on your HP machines and if you have HP Smart Array P410i Controller and especially Battery on HPSA1 and Fully Charged than you can use LIVE/ONLINE migration of RAID without shutdown of your VMWare host. For this work you need to connect on console of VMWare host server (putty or others...).
Manual of needed commands:
vmware -v
//show version of your host installed
esxcli software vib list
//show your installations in VMWare host - you need to have installed HP tool hpacucli-9.40-12.0.vib or other versions this tools
// this installation need a reboot of vmware host so, good is install it in time of update your vmware for example
esxcli software vib install -d /vmfs/volumes/ESX_Datastore/hp-HPUtil-esxi5.0-bundle-1.4-15.zip
//installation of HP tools from host's console
/opt/hp/hpacucli/bin/hpacucli ctrl all show config
//than you can work with hp tool in vmware host - show configuration of your RAIDs including battery status
/opt/hp/hpacucli/bin/hpacucli ctrl slot=0 modify rebuildpriority=low
/opt/hp/hpacucli/bin/hpacucli ctrl slot=0 modify rebuildpriority=high
//you can choice low mode or high mode of migration (with 2.2TB is different between migrations about 5h (low was about 3h, high was about 8h) )
/opt/hp/hpacucli/bin/hpacucli ctrl slot=0 ld 1 modify raid=5
//command for change of your RAID - in my case it was from RAID 50 to RAID 5
/opt/hp/hpacucli/bin/hpacucli ctrl slot=0 ld 2 modify size=max forced
// command for adding new free space to the one of logical volume - use maximal size
/opt/hp/hpacucli/bin/hpacucli ctrl slot=0 ld 4 modify size=500 forced
//command for adding new free space to the one of logical volume - use just size 500 MB
Also can be usefull:
/opt/hp/hpacucli/bin/hpacucli ctrl slot=0 ld 4 add drives=2:3
// add drives
/opt/hp/hpacucli/bin/hpacucli ctrl slot=0 create drives=1:13,1:14,1:15,1:16,1:17 raid=5
//add drivers with proper raid version
reference -> https://communities.vmware.com/thread/439643