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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Adding disks to add more space to RAID 1+0 array

I have a HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8 server running Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS. During the installation I had setup RAID 1+0(which I believe is same as RAID 10?): hpssacli ctrl all show config Smart Array P420i in Slot 0 (Embedded) (sn: 00143803246ED20) …
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HP DL360 G7 4K native sector disk size compatible?

I have a HP DL360 G7 server with a P410i drive controller which don't accept 4K native sector size disks (Seagate ST2000NX0263). LED on drive bay is red. Is there any controller (Adaptec, LSI, Intel ..) which is compatible with the server and the 4K…
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HP ML360 G6 server won't boot after swapping system disk

I am hoping for some help since I am completely out of ideas how to solve this! I have a ML360 G6 server with a smartarray p410 controller. All disks conifured in 4 separate arrays in raid 0 (I know, there is no redundancy in this setup, not is…
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Debian Wheezy drivers for HP ProLiant DL360 Gen9 RAID controller

I bought 2 HP DL360 Gen9 Servers and wanted install Debian Wheezy on those with PXE Boot network install. But it seems that Wheezy does not include a driver for the Smart Array Controllter p440ar/2g. The installer asks me if I want to continue…
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HP Array Utility, Remove a spare drive from a Raid 1 Array

I have a DL380 with 2 Raid 1 arrays with spares. As the server is a part of a cluster I want to remove the spares and create a new logical drive with them. The problem is that HP Array Configuration Manager doesn't allow this. In the utility it…
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HP DL180 G6 - SD Card slot

I have ESXi 5 installed on HP DL180 G6 on RAID. This server is part of the vCenter and it's connected with HP P2000 Storage. For some reason all VMs on that server a very slow and "restart" of the host or "restart" of guest are taking a lot of time.…
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Adding additional hot swap drive to HP ProLiant DL360 in RAID1 config

I have a HP ProLiant DL360p Gen8 server. It has 8 drive bays with only 6 being used in a RAID1 config. Can I add an additional 2 drives to the empty bays hot and the HP Smart Array Controller will configure them automatically into the RAID and…
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HP array device fails after pci slot change

i changed my HP 410 smart array controller from one pci slot to another because it was faulty. After the change the logical unit i had fails showing one disk as unassigned and a new one into the array Smart Array P410 in Slot 5 (sn:…
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HP Smart Array - create a logical drive with a physical drive that contains data

I'm using a server with a HP Smart Array controller. I have a hard drive that I wrote data to. I would like to install that disk in the server and use it. Is it possible to create a logical drive from that physical drive? I see that all data is…
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Can HP SmartArray P800 be used with 3Tb drives?

I can get a good deal on a used card, but wish to use larger disks with it. The card has LSI's SAS1078 chip. Can it use 3Tb drives to their full potential, or will they appear smaller? Searching online I get somewhat conflicting information. If it…
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Replacing HP P410 with P420 and keeping the data

Would it be possible to replace HP P410 raid card with a HP P420 raid card while keeping the data? I've replaced P410 with P410 without any issues obviously. I believe they use the same software, so I'm guessing this would be possible. If I were to…
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DL380 G7 w/ SmartArray P410i - Disk "Bad Target Count"

I have a DL380 G7 with 8 x 600GB 10K RPM SAS disks in it. I'm just running some diagnostics on it before putting it in production. Thus far, no errors had popped up until I ran the HP SmartStart CD (latest version v8.70 B). The error is this: An…
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Problems with DL380 Gen9 Smart Array

I recently bought a ProLiant DL380 Gen9, i've had some trouble getting it up and running...I ran the ProLiant SPP ISO to uprade firmwares but felt the system became less stable as a result, at one point the system got stuck on the Windows loading…
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Compaq Smart Array 431 with 3.13 kernel

is there any way to use Compaq Smart Array 431 controller on 3.x kernel? I have 431 board with 4 disks, that are seen by the controller during POST, but I'm unable to communicate with it on Linux Mint 17 x86_64 with 3.13.0-24 kernel. I had it…
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Install RAID driver on HP DL380 G9

I'm trying to install RHEL 6.2 on HP DL380 G9, but the I cannot find the storage during the installation. I thought maybe RHEL 6.2 does not support HP P440AR contoller by default, then I go to HP support site to download the driver of P440ar for…
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