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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 DL360 G6 Maximum Logical Drives

I have an HP Proliant DL360 G6 server with 8 HD bays. Currently I have the first two bays working with ESXi and I'm just running RAID 0 on a single drive. This is not a production machine. It has a P410i Controller. I'm trying to add a third…
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HP B120i RAID0 very slow to read data from disks

I have a HP DL320e g8 v2 server running CentOS 7.1 (kernel 3.10.0-229.4.2.el7.x86_64). This server comes with a B120i onboard SmartArray controller, and it was configured with two identical 3TB Seagate disks in RAID-0. I've installed CentOS 7.1…
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Can I Use a Normal SSD disk in HP DL380 G6

We have a bunch of DL-380 G6 servers in our company, I want to know whether it is possible to use 2.5" SSD hard drives (with SATA III interface) on these servers or not?
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Install GNU/Linux No System Disk Error -- HP Smart Array

I have a HP Proliant DL360 g5, and am trying to install archlinux. It has a HP Smart array controller with 6 drives (all green) creating two logical volumes (one volume with 5 RAID6 drives, and the boot volume with one RAID0). I used the ORCA (array…
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How do I install HP Smart Storage Administrator (hpssa) on a Proliant N40L running Ubuntu Server 14.10?

I have an HP Proliant N40L MicroServer with an HP Smart Array P410 raid card. The boot drive is an SSD running Ubuntu Server 14.10. The P410 is getting hung up while initializing. From what I've read, the resolution is to install hppsa from HP's mcp…
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Can HP Proliant server be set to use no RAID?

I recently purchased 2 HP Proliant DL380 G6 servers for the purpose of virtulization; each will be a new host in our VMware environment. I know that I will get heat for this, but I do not want to use any RAID. We have our own method of redundancy,…
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New RAID hdparm slow

I just got a HP DL180 G6 that has 25X 146GB 15K SAS drives, 36GB RAM, 2X 2.0GHz Xeon 1333Mhz FSB. For fun I configured them all in a single RAID 0 and installed Ubuntu on it to see how fast it could get with 25 drives on a HP Smart Array P410…
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HP P420i SSD RAID Configuration

I've been testing a HP DL380p with 16x SSDs in a RAID5 on the P420i controller with 2GB FBWC that is integrated on the board. Quite good performance, but not good enough. When I simulate the IO footprint I expect on ESXi, the Average Device Latency…
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Very slow disk performance on HP P410 with RAID1+0

I have HP Microserver N54L, until recently i have used integrated software raid without problems. I have 2x WD Black and 2x WD Red (non-pro) disks for my raid array. I also have SSD directly on the motherboard (not that it matters, just to get all…
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Can a RAID array be moved from a HP P410i to a Dell Perc S100?

I have a HP Proliant ML350 G6 server with a HP P410i controller that failed miserably after a power spike. Can I move the RAID10 array to a Dell PowerEdge T310 with a Perc S100 controller without losing data?
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RAID5 array Ready for Rebuild

I've inherited administration of a server with a RAID 5 array. We have a damaged database on the array that is just over half the allocated size, so makes recovery impossible. I recently changed the spare disk in bay 25 to be part of the array…
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Why isn't my RAID array rebuilding?

Got a notice last night that a drive failed on a server. Got in this morning to replace it, and we're getting the following. Controller config report for the array looks fine, with the unusual status Ready for Rebuild. ~ # hpacucli controller all…
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Raid 5 on two scsi buses with different maximum speeds

I'm quite a noob, I'm trying to set up as a study machine an old HP ProLiant DL385 G1. I've configured a RAID 5 out of six SCSI 3.5" HDDs using: - Smart Array 6i controller; - (4 x SCSI Ultra320 36,4GB disks, 15K) AND (2 x SCSI Ultra3 36,4GB disks,…
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how to determine which drive belongs to which slot on raid 5

i have an HP DL380 G8 machine with 4 hard drives of same size and running on raid 5. unfortunately during a service process of our data center one of the junior team members pulled out all four hard drives without labeling the actual sequence. now…
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HP SSD on ProLiant DL360p Gen8 p420i controller - no TRIM?

We have a HP Proliant Dl360 Gen8 server with the 420i 2Gg disk controller. (646905-421) we have a couple of the HP Gen8 200GB 6G SAS SLC SSDs (653078-B21), (they run in RAID1) We run Debian6 on this server, and HP says that the "trim" command is not…
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