"Smart Array" is the name used by Hewlett-Packard's line of enterprise-grade RAID controllers.
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HPACUCLI Remotely make active spare permanent member
We have an old HP server - we let the HPE contract expire as it'll be decom'd soon, and our monitoring has flagged a failed disk.
For various reasons it's difficult to organise access to the server, so ideally we'd like to remove the Failed disk…

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DL380 G10 - P816 controller - Extending LD produces error about max size, even though there is more space in the Array
Array A on this DL380 G10 consists of 9 1.9TB drives in a RAID 5 config.
It reports unused space of 619995 MB.
There are two logical drives, LD 1 with 13.55 TB (14,000,000 MB), and LD 3 with 97.66 GB (100,000 MB).
I wanted to extend LD 1 to use some…

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How to get temperature readings of HP P420 RAID PCI-e card?
I have an HP Proliant ML110 G9 Server.
Added an HP Smart Array P420 PCI-E card to have real hardware RAID on the server. Everything works fine, but I noted that the P420's processor was extremely hot (I realized by touching the sink). Added an extra…

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tested hot swap, now drive is in predictive failure
I have a DL360 G6 (yes I know). I decided to test hot swap and replaced a drive with another one. THe other one failed, so I put the previous working drive back in. It's now in "predictive failure" mode for that bay.
Is there anything I can do…

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HP DL380e Gen8 NMI error
I have an HP DL380e Gen8 with P420 RAID controller it was powered on 24h per day at my previous job for 7 Months without any issues running a few VMs. After changing job I had the server at home for about 3 Months turned off. I've turned it on today…

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Server won't boot after adding two new disks
I have an HP ML350 G6 server with 3 600Gb SAS drives on RAID5. I added 2 new 1Tb disks and configured a new Array with RAID1. Al of a sudden I got the blue screen of death, the server rebooted and now I get operating system not found. I've run the…

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Windows Server 2019 Hyper-V guest disk performance
I have a site who run a very IO-sensitive application (Accredo Saturn); it's an accounting/CRM package written in Delphi with a local flat-file database.
For various historical reasons the site was running it on a Windows Server 2008 R2 terminal…

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HP Proliant DL180 G6 HHD failure and replacement
One of the HP HDD in our HP Proliant DL180 G6 had failed, I've replaced the failed HDD with a standard 1 TB Seagate HDD, the Array controller won't start rebuilding on a Seagate, I had the new Seagate HDD in for about a week and the controller…

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HP dl380 g6 raid0
Im planning on buying a HP dl380 g6, but I'm new to the raid thing. Could I do a raid0 with 7X146gb, and use all the 7 drives.
The raid controller is a p410i.

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How do I configure Dual Domain SAS for my D2600 enclosure and Linux
I'm investigating how one would go about setting up dual domain SAS with a D2600 and two identical HP cards for the following: P411, P421, P431, P441, P822 or the P841
I've tried searching but I can't seem to find any documentation that explains…

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How to eject sas hdd win server 2012 proliant dl380 g9
We got Proliant DL380 G9, when I try to eject or remove SAS HDD by taking it offline, the Red LED (Do not remove) is still on. I'm not really familiar with Proliant, on other servers I just take the drive offline and I can safely remove it. This one…

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Restore RAID 5 HP P410
I have:
P410 + 512MB Battery Backup
4x4TB in RAID 5
I changed the PSU today and after starting OS (Windows 2008 R2) the array is gone.
ACU sees 2 HDD as unassigned and original RAID 5 as 2 OK and 2 HDD missing.
How can I restore the original…

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HP Smart Array 6i upgrade firmware on Ubuntu
How can I upgrade the firmware of my HP Array controller 6i? can I upgrade using hpacucli? or any other CLI utility?
The server that I want to upgrade is a HP Proliant DL360 G4 with Ubuntu Server.
Thanks.

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migrate from raid 5+1 (spare) to raid 50 without losing data on hp p420i smart array
i have a raid 5+1(spare) with 8 disk of 1TB each one.
my controller is hp p420i.
i want add to my server another new array 5+1(spare) with other new 8 disk to build one array in raid 50
whithout lose data.

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Repair HP SmartArray p410i
i have an HP proliant server and in the last 4 years i never had a single problem with it. but yesterday i found out that i cant remotely login to my server so i went over and found that one of three of RAID HDDs has an orange LED instead of…

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