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HP (Hewlett-Packard) is a server and network equipment manufacturer. This is a generic tag to be used when discussing HP hardware or software with no more specific tag available - See the list in the main tag wiki.

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HP has acquired several major industry names in computing, including Compaq and 3Com.

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Can HP Virtual Connect modules be used as a layer 2 switch?

I have an HP C7000 enclosure which I recently upgraded with a pair of HP Flex-10 Virtual Connect Ethernet modules (HP PN: 455880-B21). Each module has 16 downlink ports to connect to server blades via the midplane and 8 uplink ports to connect to…
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Updating iLO on and old server

I have an old HP ProLiant DL380 G3 server I plan on using to tamper with. However, I have ran into an issue. I can't access iLO due to a firmware gap (from around 2003) to the present. When I try to login to my iLO panel, it first sends me to a page…
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HP Proliant RAID setup; does the order matter?

This should be a simple answer but I need to know before proceeding with my configuration. I have an HP Proliant DL380 G6 6-port server. I need to create a Raid array using 4 drives but port 1 and 3 are in use so can I create a Raid10 array using…
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Any known fixes for Hyper-V host networking randomly stops responding?

We run several HP DL380 Gen8 servers as Windows 2012 R2 Hyper-V hosts. Randomly, they stop responding on the customer NIC (ie the one connected to the virtual switch). Customers are disconnected from VMs. Luckily we have found that we can get to the…
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Install CentOS 7 on HP dl120 gen9 server with b140i raid controller

I'm trying to install CentOS 7 on a HP DL120 gen 9 server with a b140i controller. I have 4 1TB HDD setup in a raid 1+0 and the CentOS installer doesn't seem to recognize the logical drive created from the storage utility. From my understanding i…
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Configure HP BL460c Gen9 with external iSCSI SAN

Hi I am very new to servers. I have a HP BL460c Gen9 server with 650 FLB controller in Legacy mode. I need to connect this to a external SAN through iSCSI. I am not able to go to the NIC BIOS by pressing "Ctrl+S" to go to the iSCSI settings. How do…
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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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Wrong firmware on Ultrium LTO4 1840

A client has an old MSL6030 Tape Library with a pair of LTO4 Ultrium 1840 tape drives in the back. Both have failed. We have procured identical replacements (same part # anyway) and have been unable to get the library to recognise them. I've…
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Finding out which cciss disk is what /dev/sdX disk (smartmontools & cciss raid controller)

I have a HP server, which has a hardware RAID array (that mostly isn't being used for raiding, the disks are just passed through to the Linux OS). I have 6 SSD disks. 2 are riad mirrored together by the array, the other 4 are exposed to the OS. One…
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Monitoring HP Smartarray (cciss) with nagios

I'm trying to monitor an HP Smart Array controller using nagios. I have 4 disks on 2 RAID1 arrays, so 2 disks per RAID1. I installed nrpe-server and nrpe-plugins and I'm using the almighty check_raid plugin, but it seems to only be seeing my first…
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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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Batch configure HP ILO from laptop

I need a method of setting over a thousand Ilo's on our HP DL360p Gen 8 servers (With hundreds more on the way!) Our environment doesn't allow for the use of any automatically assigned address such as DHCP, so we are unable to push these changes via…
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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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