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

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How can I update the SmartArray P410i firmware on a DL360G6? The usual method via SPP Auto-Update fails

Usually this works great-- boot from the SPP ISO, walk away for a beverage, come back and everything's updated. Not so on a few of my servers... The final SPP release for these old DL360 G6 servers was Oct 2016, so that's what I'm using. Here's what…
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Why advanced options for RAID 1 (mirror) don't appear on HP's Smart Storage Administrator (SSA) tool?

I just had a disk failure on one of my physical drives of a RAID 1 logical drives, on a HP Proliant Gen8 v2 Server, model ML310e, and HP Dynamic Smart Array B120i RAID Controller (v3.54.0), running Windows 2012 R2. The problem is that when I open…
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HP RHEL Array Raid Disk Status from command line

I've configured a HP DL360 Gen 9 with 6 disks and raid 5 and i've installed RHEL 6.9 on it. I need to know, from command line, the status of every single physical disk so i could grep info to an appplication we are developing. I've been in touch…
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HPE 1.92TB SATA 6G Mixed Use SFF SSD very slow compared to SAS HDD HP disks

In below screenshot, I benchmarked 3 machines, 4 Drives. my main production based on DL580, HPE 1.92TB SATA 6G Mixed Use SFF SSD RAID 1. MySQL insert time of 1 million rows is ~ 30 seconds in the SSD, while its ~ 15 seconds in the ImageServer 20TB…
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HP P812 attr_value_interface_phy_not_connected

We got an error on HP server with a HP Smart Array P812 and now 6 of the drives are missing. the error seems to be attr_value_interface_phy_not_connected (See pic) and I found no reference anywhere on the web for it. in status alerts windows it also…
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How do I test SAS HDD connected to HP Smart Array P410i controller?

My client is getting a used HP Proliant DL360 G6 server and I want to make sure that it's safe to use this server further in production. I've tested RAM using GoldMemory (results are OK), and now I'm lost searching for a way to test hard drives. At…
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DL160 gen9 P440 SAS cable

We recently bought a new HP Smart Array P440 RAID controller from the local HP reseller store for our HP DL160 gen9 server. (P/N: 783361-425) We want to run ESXi on the server, with three virtual hosts. We bought the HP Smart Array P440 to upgrade…
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DL180 G6 - ESXI 6.0 - P410 - Lost access to volume Issue

We have a DL180 G6 Server with a P410 RAID Card. The server has the following three RAID arrays. 4x2TB - RAID 10 4x2TB - RAID 10 2x2TB - RAID 1 2x2TB HD's are configured as hot spares for the three arrays. Following is the relevant output from…
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SAS expander card, not detecting DAS, is this supposed to work?

I have a similar sas expander HSTNM-B017 and when I connect an external DAS unit to it (HP StorageWorkd MSA50) nothing shows up in device manager or disk manager, as if its not connected. do you have to take the connection from the DAS -> SAS…
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Smart array P410i Maximum hard drive capacity?

I've looked for quite a while and for some reason can not find this info anywhere, the HP quickspec document search (Which they recommend) doesn't bring up anything. I have a proliant DL380 g6, and want to know what the maximum hard drive size is…
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Install CentOS 6 on HP ML 150 gen9 server with b140i raid controller

I have HP ML 150 with Smart Array b140i controller. I want to install CentOS 6.6, but the driver isn't built-in the ISO. I have download the Driver and install in the USB(dd). I need the command for check the USB, and where to put.
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Remove spare from OS array, add to data array

OK, from what I've been seeing online (including at this link Repurpose spare drive in HP ProLiant RAID 5 array) it should be pretty simple to do what I need. I just want to get confirmation, since I haven't dealt with RAID arrays in years (when…
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Checking RAID events log or history of a Smart Array P400 in a HP ProLiant DL380 G5 server

In a rack-mounted HP ProLiant DL380 G5 server, running Linux (RHEL - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - version 5.9, 64-bit): after a shutdown and power on, one of 4 hard disks of a Logical Drive using "RAID 1+0" started "Rebuilding". I was able to…
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FBWC and Zero Memory (ZM) RAID Controller on HP DL360p

I got a chance to work on HP DL360p Gen8 server with Smart Array controller P420i/ZM What are the advantage of having FBWC or BBWC Will it be possible to add an external P420/1GB or P420/2GB to this server. Can a FBWC give better performance for…
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What RAID configuration do I actually have?

So lately I've been playing around with my recently purchased (used server) (HP ProLiant ML330 G6) and I am a bit confused as to the current RAID configuration it has. I did a bit of checking via the HP System Management webpage on my server and…
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