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"Smart Array" is the name used by Hewlett-Packard's line of enterprise-grade RAID controllers.

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HP Proliant DL180 G6 - Smart Array P410, bay 11 error

I've been trying to search over ther internet for a solution to fix this. I'm the new IT person for my organization and our previous IT have not kept any records on certain things. I do understand, that its a bad practice but I'm now making all…
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CentOS 6.5 with HP ProLiant DL360e Gen8

I have a chance to install a new HP ProLiant DL360e Gen8 server. There are three hard drives. How do I configure RAID 1 on this type of server. Will RAID already be configured so that it will look like one hard drive while installing CentOS, or…
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Switch disks between array controllers

I have an HP ProLiant ML 350 G5, which has an HP Smart Array E200i/128 BBWC Controller embedded. This controller manages two arrays (each with three 72 GB disks in RAID 5) This controller has problems. I pretend to connect an HP Smart Array P800/512…
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HP DL320e Gen8, 3TB drives, Windows Server 2012 R2 - HDD full capacity alocation difficulties during installation

One interesting task to do but not so easy as i thought. The server is HP DL320e gen8, The main difficulty is with partitioning the RAID1 (2x3TB HDDs) during the installation on 2 partitions (System = 200GB and Data = the rest of the space ~ 2.7TB)…
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Multiple Servers, Multiple Drive Failure within 12 hours?

In the IT world I just won the Lottery Twice.... Today we had a hard drive fail in a raid array. A few hours later we had another drive fail on a different server.... We started checking all the environmental logs and systems immediately. Humidity…
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HP Dynamic Smart Array B120i ESXi performance issue

One of our small offices was in need of a small server to perform certain tasks. Because the noise and size an of a regular server I went with the HP ProLiant Microserver Gen8 G1610T. I expected it to be great, having read a lot of reviews and…
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LFF in HP DL360p, how and is it a good idea?

I need a new server with 10 Tb storage and was looking at a DL360p with a D2600. It would do the trick, but it´s quite expensive and I´m looking for alernatives. 4 x 4 Tb would be enough, both for storage and speed I think. What do I need to buy to…
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Format SAS drives HP DL360G6

hoping you can point me in the right direction here. I scored an older HP DL 360G6 and have been having issues installing ESXi. After a bit of searching around a few people suggested completely formatting the drives and then re-creating the arrays…
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Suitability of DL380p-Gen8 + D2700 for SQL 2012 Standard Edition

A question for those who know about HP server performance and SQL... I am trying to spec a suitable server that has the following requirements: Run SQL 2012 Standard Edition (I cannot get approval for Enterprise edition) Main database is currently…
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How to move RAID 1 to RAID 1+0

I have two HP disks in RAID 1 (300 Gb), and would like to at 2 additional disks in RAID 1+0 having in total of 600 Gb on C:. I would like to know is it possible to do it using Array Configuration Utility without loosing and data? Controller is…
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RAID 5 drive upgrade

We have an HP ProLiant ML350 G5 server with an 8-bay RAID 5 array configured on a Smart Array E200i controller. The system volume and data are on the same logical drive. The drives are 72GB each and we are running out of space. All the bays are used…
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How to determine HP Smart Array model?

How to determine HP Smart Array model on HP server? I own HP 350 G6 server. Really do not know where to look, is there a utility tool that can help me find this information, or is there a sign on the hardware? Thanks Ok, I used Array Configuration…
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Remote discovery/inventory of attached disk enclosures

I have a handful of HP DL3xx G7 servers, that I know have HP D2600 disk units attached via P411 SmartArray controllers. I can see info about the array controllers and the disks (via the Array Configuration Utility and the System Management…
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How to connect SATA disks to copy large amounts of data from them to HP server running CentOS 6

We have an HP Proliant DL320e running CentOS 6. We will get SATA hard disks with data in the formats NTFS, FAT, HFS and HFS+ from which we would like to copy the files to the server (read-only), preferably without having to reboot the server each…
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HP SmartArray 410i controller slow?

Have just had a new HP DL380 G6 server set up. This has a SmartArray P410i controller and seven 2.5" 146Gb SAS 10k RPM disks, configured as three RAID1 arrays and a floating hot spare. Problem: I did a disk performance test on the drives using…
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