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

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ML350 G6 drive not detected

I have an ML350 G6 that I have bought some new drives (HP P/N: 507129-004) for. According to the drive specs these are compatible with the G6 but the SAS controller (p410i) is not detecting them. The controller works fine as I have another set of…
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Enabling drive write cache using Smart Storage Admin CLI

Using Smart Storage Admin, I am trying to enable DWC. Using this following command, I confirm slot0 is the only option and it is healthy. sudo /opt/smartstorageadmin/ssacli/bin/ssacli ctrl all show status HPE Smart Array P816i-a SR Gen10 in Slot 0…
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I lost the RAID control drive position

I have a HP Proliant DL360 with RAID controller. I had some trouble in the power supply so I removed the 6*250 drives without positioning the drives After fixing the problem power supply I need to replace the 6 drives but I forget the position of…
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Why does my supposedly hardware-based RAID appear as a "fake raid"

I have a low-end server for a SOHO set-up: a Gen8 HP Microserver. It has a built-in Dynamic Smart Array B120i (RAID) Controller. When booting the server up before any OS was installed I was able to open the HP Smart Array configuration utility and…
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HP drive array "ready for rebuild" (RAID5)

We have a ProLiant server with Smart Array P440ar controller. Since about three weeks the "don't remove" lights on some of the SAS drives are on. Perhaps after a power loss. If we reboot it, it shows in the post screen: Embedded RAID : Smart Array…
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HP SmartArray disk not responding in bay 2 during boot

I've RAID 5 array that started acting wonky lately. During POST it shows this error: Slot 4 HP Smart Array P600 Controller (256MB, v2.04) 1 Logical Drive 1789-Slot 4 Drive Array Disk Drive(s) Not Responding Check cables or replace the…
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Replace HDD in "predictive failure" state with spare HDD in HP Smart Array P400 controller

I have an HP Smart Array P400 RAID controller with six physical disks configured in RAID 5. Four of the physical disks are in "OK" state, one is in "Predictive Failure" state, and one is in "spare" state: logicaldrive 1 (3.6 TB, RAID 5,…
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Couldn't mark volume as bootable in hpacucli (SmartArray P400i)

I've got HP ProLiant G5 with hardware controller HP SmartArray P400i. I created logical drive from 4 HDD and installed OS, but i don't know hot to mark this volume as boot. Here's the output of hpacucli in HP SSA disk: => ctrl slot=0 modify…
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MongoDB Replica Set: Is RAID 60 worth it for massive array?

We are planning to get HPE DL380 Gen9 8SFF CTO Servers with HP Smart Array P440ar/2G FIO Controller to setup a MongoDB cluster which will store huge amounts of data. (Assume growing non-stop) Cluster will have 3 servers initially and will add more…
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HP Smart Array 5i Interim Recovery

Seemingly without cause the server suddenly stopped working. On reboot, it says one or more logical drives has failed. Drive #1 is the C drive with the OS and Drive #2 is the data drive. It shows that drive #2 is in INTERIM RECOVERY. Does that mean…
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HP DL580 HDD Fan Issue

I recently obtained an HP ProLiant DL580 G7 without any HDDs so I went ahead and installed an SSD which works great and the other day I ordered a 2.5" SATA 2 TB HDD (ST2000LMB15). After installing the new SATA drive, one of the temperature sensors…
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HPE ProLiant DL60 Gen 9 - Please attach some optical or iLO media before continuing

I'm trying to reinstall the OS on a HPE ProLiant DL60 Gen9 but it refuses to find the built in DVD drive. I pressed F10 during boot (Provisioning) to install and after the "Select operation system" screen it says "Please attach some optical or iLO…
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Can physical drives configured for an HP Proliant DL 380 Gen 9 server be used to boot another server of the same model?

We are having great difficulty getting physical hard drives that were configured for our server to work in another server of the same model (HP Proliant DL 380 Gen 9). One would think that I could configure in Smart Storage Administrator the same…
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Replace Encrypted RAID Card

Im completely inexperienced in this topic, therefore excuse me if my question is redundant. We are thinking about deploying Servers with HP Smart Array P840 Controller and using the HPE Secure Encryption for security. The HPE Secure Encryption is,…
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Moving disks from HP DL360g5 to DL380g6 with Windows 2008

I have DL360G5, with E200i array controller, 128MB cache + BBWC. It is running Windows 2008, as a member of the domain. I have a total of 4 disks there: 2x72GB SAS, 2x300GB SAS, with two mirrors, one for system, one for data. I'd like to move all…
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