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

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RAID5 on SmartArray P410i online resize

I have P410i+256M Cache without battery backup. My RAID5 was build over 3*136GB disks, now all disks were replaced to a 3*300GB array. How can I extend it to use the whole space? HPacucli doesn't allows that, I think this might be because no battery…
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Large disk queue length

A few days ago disk on my server started to have large queue length: I've changed controller battary recently, HP configuration utility was saying the battery is bad, but after changing the battery nothing changed. HP configuration utility is now…
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Using an SAS Expander with a SAS Controller of a different brand

I'm planning on assembling a server, and I'm just wondering if a SAS expander by IBM (such as this one) would allow me to use the RAID and other features (Battery-backed write-back caching) of a SAS controller such as the HP Smart Array P400. Does…
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How can I speed up the build of a Logical Drive on a HP Smart Array P411?

Is there anything I can do to speed up the creation of the HP Smart Array logical drives? Does creating too many drives at the same time affect the overall performance?
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Find CCISS version

I'm currently running Ubuntu 10.10 and would like to just find out what version of HP's CCISS RAID array driver I'm running. I've looked around hpacucli and couldn't find anything. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
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Proliant ML350 G3 System board failure

My ProLiant ML350 G3 Tower server's system board has gone bad after it had an inch of its lower edge in rain water. I have a SCSI controller Smart Array 532 with six (36GBx3 and 146GBx3) under RAID5 drives installed. As per the messages it seems…
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Using smartctl to get vendor specific Attributes from ssd drive behind a SmartArray P410 controller

Recently I have deployed some HP server with SSD's behind a SmartArray P410 controller. While not official supported from HP the server work well sofar. Now I like to get wear level info's, error statistics etc from the drive. While the SA P410…
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Increasing RAID1 (mirror) redundancy in HP Smart Array P410?

Please is it possible to add a third (or more) drives to a mirror (RAID1) in P410? IIUC it would mean creating "Mirror Group 3" (or more). I could not find any way to add a new mirror group using the HP tool ssacli, the documentation only talks…
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Having more than 2 logical drives in a HP ML350 G6

I've begun setup of a HP ML350 G6 and I've hit a wall. I've got 2 RAID drives (each having 2 HDDs in a mirror). I've now come to put a couple of extra disks into the server and it won't let me create the logical disks for the 2 new drives. I don't…
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Getting a RAID controller to surface scan on a sane schedule

The controller I'm presently working with is quite old, the HP Smart Array P400; in part I want to know how to deal with that controller, but I'm also interested in the general perspective -- if there are other/newer controllers that handle this…
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How is the HPE SSA "remove drives" command supposed to work to shrink an array?

I have an HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen9 Server with 15 internal 8TB SAS LFF drives, in a RAID6 configuration through an HP Smart Array P840ar controller. It contains a single 94.6 TB Logical Drive [Size: 94.6 TB / Used Space: 109.2 TB (100.0%)] The…
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How to identify which disk is failing in a HP ProLiant RAID controller?

I have a hard time identifying which drive is failing in my HP ProLiant DL360p Gen8. It has the following RAID controller: Smart Array P420i. I see tons of errors in dmesg: [40425140.998750] sd 0:1:0:1: [sdb] Unaligned partial completion…
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What is a HP Smart Array P822 Transient Data Drive

We had a disk go bad on one of our HP servers. It is a RAID 60. We had 2 drives in the system that weren't assigned to an array yet. We rebooted went into the array and clicked the failed/BAD drive. We then selected "replace drive" (I think it was…
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HP Smart Array P420i Configuration - LZMA data is corrupt

I'm trying to get into the Array Configuration Utility for the Smart Array P420i controller. The server is a HP ProLiant DL360p Gen8. After POST, I press F5 as asked in order to get to the ACU. However, during boot of the ACU, it presents me the…
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Disk errors, drives going into read-only mode and HP P410i Smart Array resetting logical drives

I manage a HP ProLiant DL380 G6 server for a student association which was going to be thrown away by our university. The server has a P410i hardware raid controller which we use for a 3 drive RAID 5 for our OS and a 4 drive RAID 10 for our Owncloud…
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