Questions tagged [hp]

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


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Heat generated by a HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8 entry EU servers

I have to buy a stand alone server rack to be placed in a machine room. The temperature can reach 30°C in the room (I have no choice with regards to the location). In order to correct for this I will use active cooling with the used air being…
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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 Proliant Gen8 boot failure after bios upgrade and processor upgrade

We have a HP Proliant DL360P with one Intel Xeon e5-2650, and we was in need to use two Xeon e5-2670 V2, this server by default this G8 did not recognizes the v2 processor, so we found this procedure so we did the BIOS Firmware update to most…
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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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Steady red light on 2 HP SAS drives in RAID 1

I have a HP ProLiant web server with two HP 300GB SAS SFF 2.5 inch drives (Model: HP 507127-B21). Both drives have a solid red light, however there is no indication within the management software that either are in a pre-failure state. Also one of…
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In a HP server, can low voltage DIMMS and standard voltage DIMMs be mixed?

We are adding RAM to a HP Proliant DL380 G7 and were shipped standard voltage DIMMS. We have pre-installed some low voltage DIMMS. Is it acceptable to mix DIMM voltage in general? Is it advised? A technician is attempting to do this now, but the…
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Updating firmware on HP ProLiant DL380 Gen8 failed

I tried updating the firmware on my HP ProLiant 380e Gen8, but I received this error: What could be the reason? Could it be because of limited disk space in the /tmp directory? ~ # df -h Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on VMFS-5 …
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HP DL380G6: Where is the Temp. Sensor #29 (System Zone)?

The Temp. Sensor #29 of my HP DL380G6 seems to give me a wrong number. It says that the temperature is more than 50C (Caution: 60C, Critical: 65C) while the actual value is 13C. And I think it may be the reason why all fans run madly at 78% of the…
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Network card location

I am generally familiar with hpacucli and hpasmcli but how do I determine in which slot a network card is installed? I need to be able to map to and from the slot and the MAC (and from there to the interface as Linux sees it), but SHOW SERVER only…
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How do I install HP CentOS repo's

I have been searching for the answer but unable to find any instructions that work for me. I want to install the HP CentOS repo for my new ML310e Gen8 Server to I can setup the insight management software etc for it. Thank you
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Configuring VLANs on HP 1910 switch

I understand how VLANs work, but am not quite sure what the various settings in my HP switch actually do. I have an HP 1910 switch, and I'm using the web interface to configure it (personally I'd prefer the CLI, but we have some CLIphobic people…
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CPU/RAM upgrade for HP Proliant ML350 G5

I have an HP ML350 G5 server with a single Intel 5130 dual core Xeon installed. Is it possible to upgrade it to a dual processor system? I've looked at the quickspecs and spent a couple of hours searching online but haven't been able to find a…
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DDR3 10600 memory running at 533mhz

I bought a second-hand HP ProLiant DL160 G6 a year ago with 48GB configured in it. I discovered checking with cpu-z and doublechecked with speccy the memory runs at only 533Mhz. I checked the configuration with the HP memory configurator and the…