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Switch disks to another identical HP ML360 G6 with P410i array controller
In case of hardware failure, for example motherboard/processor, is it possible to put the disks of a raid 1 into a spare server to be back online asap.
If a disk failes and i want to use a disk of ...
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BI Server raid/array configuration
I'm currently maintaining a BI server that crunches numbers for reports etc. It is running on a HP ProLiant 360DL G5 32gb ram with a Smart Array p800 connected to a MSA Unit with 750 GB in RAID 1+0 ...
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Which disk is bad in raid6 array
Server: Ubuntu Lucid
RAID controller: Adaptec 3805
8 disks in RAID6 on HP Proliant DL180 G5 Hardware
My kern.log is telling me that I have a error on sdb, as below:
[2740390.344436] sd 4:0:1:0: ...
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HP P410i Array Controller and lost logical Drive
Today earlier we lost the logical drive information for a 4 drive raid array that was array B!
The system had two arrays A and B A being the single system drive and B the Data drive of 4 x 136Gb ...
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Opencart $products array, group products with a simular title
In opencart there is no facility to add grouped products, applying a different part code and UPC number to the product variants. I give example;
Lets look at "Hard Hat", available in three sizes ...
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BASH store values in an array and check difference of each value
[CentOS, BASH, cron] Is there a method to declare variants that would keep even when system restarts?
The scenario is to snmpwalk interface I/O errors and store the values in an array. A cron job to ...
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HP Smart Array P400/256MB SAS Controller BATTERY
This is probably a dumb question.
I recently purchased a couple of refurbished HP SB40C storage blade for our HP Bladesystem c3000 enclosure. Each comes with an HP Smart Array P400/256MB SAS ...
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SAS Expanders for DIY JBOD Arrays
I am researching making a DIY SAS array much like the Dell MD1000. My understanding is that these devices do not contain a RAID controller, instead they present all the drives on in SAS domain to the ...
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Raid1 degraded after every reboot
After setup, cat /proc/mdstat output looks like this:
proxmox:~# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10]
md0 : active raid1 sdc2[1] sdb2[0]
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How to resize RAID1 array with mdadm?
I've running Ubuntu 11.04 (kernel 2.6.38-11). I replaced 2x160GB with 2x500GB drives. They are configured as RAID1.
The partition tables show the right sizes. Here's sfdisk:
# sfdisk -d /dev/sdb
# ...
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Light SES2 drive failure light from Linux?
With a SES2 capable backplane and SAS card, is it possible to light the drive failure light on a specific bay from Linux? If so, how?
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Connecting a Direct Attached Storage array to multiple servers
Is it possible to connect multiple servers to the same Direct Attached Storage array, something like the Dell MD1200 or MD1220?
I see from the specs that each one of these arrays supports two ...
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Puppet: more than one array passed to a definition?
I can understand according to http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/language_guide.html that I can pass an array to a definition.
define php::pear() {
package { "`php-${name}": ensure => ...
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Dell PowerEdge 1800 Hangs at boot after Dell Cerc Sata RAID Controller Successfully POSTs
Server crashed one night. I rebooted, now it hangs just after the SATA RAID Controller successfully POSTs.
This unit has a RAID 5 array, but I haven't pulled a recent enough backup of the data on it ...
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Hp server multiple raid controller question
We just got a brand new HP DL370 G6 server with 14 X 146 gb and 2 X 300 gb sas drives.
Inside we got 3 raid controllers (one HP DL370, one HP P410 and one HP P812).
It has 2 disk bays and each of them ...
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19" Rackmountable fast storage arrays
I'm in need of some fast (15+ GB/s write) and somewhat large (50 TB+) storage subsystem with a standard storage interface. I'd prefer something other than Fibre Channel, which admittedly appears to ...
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Need help with MS SQL SAN disk array provisioning
We have a HP MSA70 with 20x300gb 2,5" 10k disks allocated for our SQL2008 server.
Our usage of the SQL server is:
50 concurrent users of our ERP system(Visma business) - 70/30 read/write.
2500 ...
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Does the IBM Xseries 305 Server Support Raid Arrays?
I'm wondering if the Xseries 305 server supports raid arrays? If so, is there already a chip installed for it?
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TMG Array + Network Load Balancing
I have a pretty simple TMG array setup that is managed by an EMS server.
The 2 servers that is in the array TMG01 and TMG02 sits in my DMZ and talks to the EMS server that is on my internal network. ...
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HP MSA 1000 SAN: Can I use 1 array/shelf?
I'm planning some expansion on an HP MSA1000 SAN. My boss says that we need to have two separate arrays on the new enclosure, one for Bays 1-7, the other for Bays 8-14. Is there any reason that we ...
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FATA disk performance for VMware
We are moving to the dataceneter and planning to have tiered storage on EVA4400 - FC RAID 10 for SQL databases and RAID5 across 24 FATA 1TB disks form VMware ESX guests.HP is describing FATA disks ...
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Re-Install Windows on Server with HP Smart Array
We have a server with an HP Smart Array 642 attached to it with a MSA20 enclosure, and want to format the OS and start over going from Server 2003 to Server 2008 R2, however want to keep the data on ...
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raid array design for esx server
need to purchase a server for virtualization. confused about 10K RPM disks and near-line SAS 7.2k RPM.
do not require any redundancy for data hence RAID0 will do.
choose disks 10K SAS for OS array and ...
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Windows 2003R2 installer only offers D: to install the OS
A little background. A server, running Windows 2003R2 (x86), with a RAID5 array, partitioned with 100GB for OS, the rest 2TB+ for data. 100GB is C:, data is D:. All fine.
Recently, due to drive ...
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Changing IP address of a host in Navisphere 6 (EMC array)
We have a EMC CX4-120 array and manage it using Navisphere 6 web interface.
Some time in the past we have registered all the HBA of 5 different hosts. Now, we need to change the ip addresses of these ...
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hp smart array p400 - failed disk - hot spare
I am having an issue with a failed disk in a HP DL380 G5 smart array p400.
The array setup is RAID 5, 7 disks + hot spare.
One disk failed some weeks ago and the hot spare automatically took over, ...
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Windows Server 2003 stuck on animated loading screen
One of my web servers has failed to reboot. Its suck on the animated Windows Server 2003 loading screen. Prior to reboot it was showing a degraded drive in the array, but not allowing me to rebuild ...
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IBM XIV (Storage Array) - Anyone?
Is anyone here using the IBM XIV storage array? Anything you would like to share of your experience so far? We're evaluating an HP EVA along with the XIV which is very different (using commodity ...
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How smart are RAID controllers/cabinets?
How smart are RAID controllers when they're under load?
Given a moderate-to-high-end controller and cabinet (i.e. current standard Dell or HP off-the-shelf kit...), RAID 5, 10gb fiber, at least 3/4 ...
