Questions tagged [hp-smart-array]

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

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Proliant dl 180 g6 install normal SATA drives

I have a Proliant DL180 G6 with problems in the P410 controller. I want to instal normal SATA drives in the server. I see the mother has 4 SATA slots but I can´t find how to power the SATA drives because the power unit does nott have SATA power…
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Install RAID1 without Second Hard Drive?

HP P410i Raid Card. I am waiting for a second hard drive to arrive. Is it possible to start with 1 hard drive and enable RAID1 without loosing data when the second drive is installed?
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HP Smart Array accessing a physical drive when the controller believes it's failing

Is it possible to somehow access the raw block device hiding behind a HP SmartArray controller? I have a JBOD disk connected through a SmartArray, and the second the controller thinks it's failing it makes it impossible to access the disk (which…
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Is it possible to convert an HP MSA20 from U320 to SAS?

Is it possible to replace the U320 controller(s) from an MSA20 with SAS/SATA controller(s) in order to attach the MSA20 to a SAS host adapter, like a P800 or P400 for example?
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HP SmartArray P212 disabled, cache module not attached

I have a DL180 G6 server with Smart Array P212 RAID controller. The server runs under Ubuntu. After an upgrade from Ubuntu 10.04 to 12.04 utility hpacucli (ver. 8.50-6.0) stopped working. The error message was about missing controller. I updated the…
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hpacucli is unstable - Sometimes finds controller, sometimes not

I try to monitor the RAID-status on my HP ProLiant DL380 G5 with hpacucli 9.20. But, it's acting rather weird. Most of the time, it will return: root@SERVER:~# hpacucli ctrl all show Error: No controllers detected. But now and then it actually…
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HP DL360 G7 P410i controller troubleshooting

Server is HP DL360 G7 with P410i disk controller. 2xE5620 CPU's. 16GB RAM. Linux mysql 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Feb 25 00:26:11 UTC 2013 x86_64 GNU/Linux (Debian 6.0.7) hpacucli "ctrl all show status" Smart Array P410i in Slot 0 (Embedded) …
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Proliant Server E200i Raid Controller does not see array

Help! My server was configured with 3 arrays: array 1 and 2 were each 136Gb raid 5 using the first 5 drives. 3 x 72Gb and 2 x 300Gb. Array 3 was 3 x 500Gb using drives 6 7 8 for 1Tb. I had a failing 300Gb and it was decided to remove array 1…
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HP 420i RAID raid level transform

I have HP DL360p Gen8 8 with internal 420i controler and FBWC + battery. ACU says that raid level is 1+0. But in details of the controler i've found: Mirror Group 0: physicaldrive 1I:1:1 (port 1I:box 1:bay 1, SAS, 500 GB, OK) …
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HP DL180 P410i Adding Additional Drive

I have a DL180 G6 HP P410i with 2x SATA in RAID1 running Linux CentOS. Can I add (using the hot swappable drives) two more hard drives into the server and mount them without rebooting the server?
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HP Proliant ML350 G6 Smart Error Test

I have a ML350 G6 with two array controllers : P410 and P410i. I have updated all possibile firmware on this server. I have 5 x Seagate Savvio 10K SAS drives. I am testing the drives with HP Insight Diagnostics. I put two drives on one array, 3 on…
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why I cant see the 6 hard disk while install Debian on my server?

I am installing Debian 6 on a server, a HP Proliant DL380 G4. It comes with 6 hard disks. Originally it had Windows server and I could see only see 3 hard disks (the other three said the Admin, were used as RAID 1) , so, now I want to install Debian…
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Reconfigure HP Smart Array RAID 50 with larger drives

We have an HP ML 350 G6 with an HP smartArray 410i controller. Running Ubuntu x64. We previously had 8 146G drives configured as a 820GB raid 50 logical drive. Now I have replaced 4 146GB drives with 900GB drives and want to resize the logical…
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HP Proliant ML350 G5 E200i Hard Disk get amber light after firmware Update

I have an HP ProLiant ML 350 G5 with E200i Controler running Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 It have four disks drives models DG072A9BB7 firmware HPD0, with two logical drives C: and D: booth with raid 1-0 runing for months I add four new disks models…
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How to replace failed drive in RAID 5 array in HP DL380 G4 server

Sorry for not providing more information when I previously posted this question. More detail is provided below. Any feedback would be welcome. I have a HP DL380 G4 2U server which has 6 drive scsi slots and all of them are populated. 4 of the drives…
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