"Smart Array" is the name used by Hewlett-Packard's line of enterprise-grade RAID controllers.
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Building recovery plan for HP DL380 G7 server
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Disaster recovery plan development best practicies or resources?
I need your help to find out best practice to maintain my server and be ready for any kind of disk error in the feature.
I have setup the server with RAID 5…
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HP P410i RAID10 performance causing Xen to crash
It seems HP P410 RAID card is causing some of my servers to crash when under high IO.
Configured RAID10 with 4x SAS 15k HDDs.
Is this normal? Do I need some other hardware to add to the RAID card to prevent this?
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HP MSA60 complains that new drives are faulty
We got some replacement drives from HP PN 454273-001 1TB 7.2k drives. We put them into the msa. It completes rebuild but when we run the hp insight diagnostics tests. It comes back as read write error threshold reached. At first we thought it might…
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proliant 380gl g5 raid drive rebuilt but leds are both lit bright green
After replacing a failed Raid 5 146gig SAS drive in logical drive 2 yesterday the system reports all is good but the LEDs on the front of the drive are both on and the one on the left is bright green. Any thoughts? and both lit LEDs are green.
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Smart Array 6i in DL385 can only see two physical drives
I originally had 2 x 72.8 GB hard drives installed and set up as RAID 0+1 then I added another 4 x 72.8 GB hard drives and it can still only see 2. That applies with both the inbuilt configuration (F8 on startup) and ACU under Windows. What to…
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Acessing HP Disk Array from Linux
I have some old HP Proliant GL5 with HP P400i array controllers that I want to put to some use.
In a small test I have booted with Archlinux, and it was able to list the array card and network interfaces. So far so good.
In system setup (pressing…
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RAID performance with 10xSSD on an HP P420i
I am planning to use 10x 8TB Samsung 870 QVO SATA III 2.5" SSD in an HP DL360 G8 server that uses P420i smart array controller.
Each SSD has a max of 530 MBs speed in sequential reads. Theoretically, a RAID-5 configuration gives 5300 MBs (10x530…
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MSA70 Upgrade options
Recently I purchased MSA70. Unfortunately I did read specs properly.
In my project, I need as much I/O operations as possible.
MSA70 is only 3Gbps, so my question is: is it any possibility to upgrade it to 6gbps, by replacing/adding better…
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Enable Smart Array P400 HP Proliant DL 120 G7
I have a HP ProLiant D7 120DL with a Smart Array P400. After doing BIOS "Restore Default System Settings" the Smart Array can't see the drives attached to it.
When starting the server, Smart Array checks for disks, but POST the message "No drives…
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P212 Smart array not configured
First of all thanks for all your help.
I have purchased a used HP DL380 G7 for my home.
This is my first server installation and all going well for the raid configuration P410I and ESXI installation.
I have purchased a D2600 with a P212 raid with…
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HP Proliant DL380 Gen9
I have HP proliant DL380 Gen9
I do the installation oracle linux 6.4 and installation does not detect the logical drive created. i have 300GB SAS- on raid 0 logical drive
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High IO latency on ESXi 4.1 on HP DL580 G7
at my Company we were experiencing some weird spikes on IO latency on one of our ESXi instances.
we've spend 24h figuring out whats wrong and no clue so far.
after giving up we put all the disks into a different server (HP DL380 G7) with much less…
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Red Hat 5.3 on HP Proliant DL380 G5 and failed drive on RAID controller
I have a development ERP server here in my office that I assist with support on, and originally the DBA requested a single drive setup for some of the drives on the server. Thus the hardware RAID controller (an HP embedded controller) looks…
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Increase server's logical drive support
I have an HPE ProLiant DL360p Gen8 Server, with one P420i controller.
As I read in its specification, the controller's limit is 2 logical drives. What part(s) should I buy in order to increase it to 8 drives?
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Extend RAID 5 to use unused space and add additional disks?
I am new to RAID. I want to extend an existing RAID 5.
The current setup is as follows:
Array A
unused space : 349956 MB
logical drive :1
total size 273GB
raid5
disk : /dev/cciss/c0d0
physical
1I:1:5 - 146gb
2I:1:1 - 146gb
2I:1:2 - 146gb
2I:1:3…
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