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

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HP Proliant Array Configuration Utility shows 4TB drive size as zero

I tried adding a pair of 4TB WD RE disks to a HP Proliant ML350 G6 server, but the ACU utility shows them as having a capacity of 0.0 GB. Is this a known issue? From the documentation for the Smart Array P410 Controller, I believe it should support…
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HP DL60 Gen9 not booting installed OS

I have an issue with 2 HP DL60 Gen9 servers. They each contains 2 x 500 G SATA HDDs. I've used Intelligent Provisioning to create a RAID 1 array using the HDDs however, the first issue I noticed is during the OS install process I'm still seeing two…
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HP Code 341 "Physical Drive State: Predictive failure. This physical drive is predicted to fail soon."

this is my first post so bear with me here :-) Background: I have a RAID5 setup with 4 disks that have been working perfect for years. After one drive failed, I installed new drives which where rebuilding but it will mark new drives as smart status…
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Hardware RAID1 configuration - Possibly failed sectors on one physical disk. Does the OS automatically read from the other disk?

I'm not a professional sysadmin but since I couldn't find answers to my specific case after researching for a while I was hoping I could get some help here. Our server uses P222 - a HP Smart controller array in RAID1 configuration. I believe some…
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P410i smart array controller SATA drive recommendations of known working models

Background: my company needed some internal, reliable servers for internal data. (we normally use cloud). Being a small company, we have scanty budget, but also flexibility. We picked up a number of HP DL360 G6 at an enormously good price (as far as…
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Identify which drives belong to a specific HP RAID 5 Group

A total of 32 drives were removed from x4 decommissioned HP DL380 G6 servers (eight per server). The setup of the eight drives per host was into two RAID Groups: RAID 1 = SLOT 1, 2 = ESXi OS RAID 5 = SLOT 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 = VMFS Vol (hosting virtual…
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Extended raid 5 is not expanding

I have a D2700 with 25 1Tb disks with a P421 raid card in a dl360p gen8 HP server. It was raided as two raid 5 with 2 spare each. I decided to make one raid 5 out of them, deleted one raid and added the disk to the other. Now weeks later looking at…
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esxi passthrough storage adapter

I run ESXi 5.1.0 (HP version) on HP ProLiant ML310e G8 v2. There are 2 Storage Adapters: Smart Array P222 Dynamic Smart Array B120i Storage Adapters are visible in ESXi/Storage Adapters. Storage Adadpters I need to use passthrough for B120i. In…
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Adding a local HDD to an ESXi host

I am trying to add a 4TB HDD to my ESXi server, but I can't find out how. I've tried following a few tutorials on the internet, which say to go to the configuration tab, storage, rescan the datastores and add the HDD from there, but mine won't show…
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SLES 10 SP4 (x86_64) - HP Proliant DL380 G4 - Becomes unresponsive randomly

Had the misfortune of upgrading a HP Proliant DL380 G4 from SLES 10 SP2 (i586) to SLES 10 SP4 (x86_64). Although the installation completed smoothly, the server became unresponsive after a couple of days of uptime. The server responds to PING but…
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HP StoreEasy 1630 Pool Expansion

We have a single HP StoreEasy 1630 with the following disk configuration: Pools RAID Drives Capacity Virtual_Disks Physical_Disks Size_Per_Disk A 1 2 450GB 1 2 450GB B 5 6 …
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How to upgrade the firmware of HP SAS expander card without Smart Array controller or Proliant Server?

How can I update/upgrade/flash the firmware of an HP SAS expander card [468406-B21 a.k.a. 487738-001]? I used to do this using Windows and a HP P410 Smart Array controller, however that controller is no longer available. The online ROM flash…
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HP ProLiant ML350e Gen8 v2 Not Detecting Hard Drives

I have tested several solutions but non of them cant detect my 2 hard drives (legacy mode , acpi and raid embended) I have a 2 Dell-Seagate SAS Cheetah 15k,7 hard drives (ST3300657SS) (they are not brand new and was used on another server) The hard…
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HP DL180 G6 amber light but drive is OK

We have an HP DL180 G6 with 25 SFF SATA drives, running 64-bit Debian Linux. A drive recently failed, so we replaced the failed drive with a new, identical part from HP. The disk controller rebuilt the logical volume and the hpacucli command now…
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Write caching in linux

I have read a lot on serverfault and searched on google about write caching, but still cant find the answer. I have an HP ProLiant DL380 G5 with HW raid with 512 MB Battery backed cache. I use debian linux. There are 3 write caches: 1. OS write…
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