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P812 “forgot” RAID6 - can't see disks at boot time in ORCA
We have an MSA60 with 12x4TB non-HP issue Seagate Constellation ES.3 drives connected to a P812/FBWC, on which I created a RAID6 over all of those disks with hpacucli and started to copy data on them.
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Install RAID1 without Second Hard Drive?
HP P410i Raid Card.
I am waiting for a second hard drive to arrive.
Is it possible to start with 1 hard drive and enable RAID1 without loosing data when the second drive is installed?
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1answer
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HP SmartArray P212 disabled, cache module not attached
I have a DL180 G6 server with Smart Array P212 RAID controller. The server runs under Ubuntu. After an upgrade from Ubuntu 10.04 to 12.04 utility hpacucli (ver. 8.50-6.0) stopped working. The error ...
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HP 420i RAID raid level transform
I have HP DL360p Gen8 8 with internal 420i controler and FBWC + battery. ACU says that raid level is 1+0. But in details of the controler i've found:
Mirror Group 0:
physicaldrive 1I:1:1 ...
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HP smart array p400 RAID 1+0; two disks crashed
I am running a RAID 1+0 on a HP ProLiant DL360 G5 with 6 disks (each 146 GB).
The mirror groups looks as follows:
Group 1
146 GB 1-Port SAS Drive at Port 1l: Box1:Bay1
146 GB 1-Port SAS Drive at ...
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HP Smart Array P400 controller reports physical drives incorrectly
I've been researching on this the majority of the day, when I had time to blow.
But now it's just becoming a headache, when I ask the HP P400 for detailed Information on the drives connected to the ...
2
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1answer
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Unexpected RAID space overhead
I'm using an HP Smart Array P400 and seeing the controller take a rather large amount of overhead I would not expect and am wondering where it is going.
I have six SAS drives hooked up. They're all ...
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1answer
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Accidentally deleted wrong logical drive HP Smart Array P800 controller
I was tasked to do some rearranging on my company's HP Proliant storage server. In the p800 configuration utility I managed to delete the wrong logical disk, which was a 10 disk RAID 6 array. I'm just ...
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Proliant server will not accept new hard disks in RAID 1+0?
I have a HP ProLiant DL380 G5, I have two logical drives configured with RAID. I have one logical drive RAID 1+0 with two 72 gb 10k sas 1 port spare no 376597-001.
I had one hard disk fail and ...
3
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1answer
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moving raid 10 to another identical server both on Smart Array 6i controllers
I have dead HP DL 380G4 with RAID 1+0 with 1 logical volume from 4x72GB drives on built-in Smart Array 6i 128Mb BBWC. It was shut down properly. It seems it was usual death for Proliant with ILO led ...
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1answer
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HP P410i RAID10 performance causing Xen to crash
It seems HP P410 RAID card is causing some of my servers to crash when under high IO.
Configured RAID10 with 4x SAS 15k HDDs.
Is this normal? Do I need some other hardware to add to the RAID card ...
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Can different drive speeds and sizes be used in a hardware RAID configuration w/o affecting performance?
Specifically, I have a RAID 1 array configuration with two 500gb 7200rpm SATA drives mirrored as logical drive 1 (a) and two of the same mirrored as logical drive 2 (b). I'd like to add two 1tb ...
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1answer
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HP RAID array - hpacucli
I've noticed that one of the drives has "unassigned" status. Does it mean that it's a spare disk?
# hpacucli controller all show config
Smart Array P410i in Slot 0 (Embedded) (sn: ...
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What is the memory module on a RAID card needed for?
As above, what is the reason for needing a memory module on a RAID card?
The card I am looking at (HP P410) comes with either 256MB or 512MB but unsure which to get and why.
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HP ProLiant DL360 G5 disk diagnostic issue
We recently got two used drives (15000) and installed on our HP proliant dl360 G5 server. Created RAID1 and used HP SmartStart CD to perform diagnostics.
Interestingly, the Diagnostic tab immidiately ...
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Reusing Raid 5 Drive?
We have two servers (ML530 G2 and DL380G2) w/ identical HP 10K RPM SCSI drives w/ a raid 5. One is decommissioned and the other will be decommissioned shortly.
However, one of the drives on the ...
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HP DL380 G5 Predictive failure of a new drive
Consolidated Error Report:
Controller: Smart Array P400 in slot 3
Device: Physical Drive 1I:1:1
Message: Predictive failure.
We have an HP DL380 G5 server with two 72GB 15k SAS drives ...
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1answer
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Different block sizes for partition and underlying logical disk on HP Raid Controller (Linux)
Following links collected in this thread I started to check blockdev and found the following output indicating different sizes for partition c0d9p1 and the underlying device (c0d9):
[root@machine ~]# ...
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1answer
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Can't enter HP SmartArray P410 RAID ORCA set-up on HP ProLiant DL320G6
I've just installed an HP SmartArray P410 controller into my HP ProLiant DL320G6 server. The controller seems detected by the server BIOS (it shows up in controllers list in the BIOS set-up), hard ...
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p212 Raid controller on SBS 2008 proliant g6
I had a mirrored array with 2 * 1TB drives. I have replaced both drives (one at a time and allowed it to rebuid) with 2 * 2TB drive. So I now have a capacity of 2TB rather than 1TB. However, the array ...
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ML350 Using both p800 and e200i
I have an ML350 G5 with a P800 and the integrated e200i. I'm using the P800 to service the main drive cage with 6 SAS drives in RAID 5. However, I would love to also convert some of the unused 5.25" ...
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Is it is possible to replace one array to other new 8 HDD array in HP RAID 1+0 without losing data on old array?
Currently, I have 4 hard disks which have been configured as RAID 1+0 in HP Proliant 380 G7, SmartArray p410i. I am planning to buy other new 8 hard disks to replace old array by swapping the disks ...
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Extend RAID 5 to use unused space and add additional disks?
I am new to RAID. I want to extend an existing RAID 5.
The current setup is as follows:
Array A
unused space : 349956 MB
logical drive :1
total size 273GB
raid5
disk : /dev/cciss/c0d0
physical
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Meaning of unused space in RAID arrays
I'm using the hpacucli command line tool to check the raid arrays in my server. What does "SAS, Unused Space: 0 MB" mean?
# hpacucli controller all show config
Smart Array P410i in Slot 0 ...
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1answer
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Convert RAID-0 to RAID-1 on HP ML350G6 with P410i zero memory
I have an HP ML350 G6 with a P410i zero memory RAID controller. As far as I can understand that means I can't expand a current single drive "RAID-0" configuration to a RAID-1 using the HP Offline ACU ...
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1answer
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HP ProLiant DL380 G4 RAID conversion?
Proliant DL380-G4 with the onboard SmartArray 6i controller.
Raid 1+0 set consisting of 2x 72 G and 2x 300 G disks (the bigger disks got added later).
Effective capacity about 140 GB and, of course, ...
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HP P212 hangs on Initializing
I'm in trouble...
Server: HP Microserver N36L
Storage: HP P212/256 with BBWC
Drives: 4 WD 2 Tb
While expanding the RAID 5 array from 3 to 4 drives, the server rebooted itself. Expansion was at 76%.
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VMWare ESXi 5 - Expanded RAID 5 array - cannot access datastore
I'm using VMWare ESXi 5 and had a 2 TB RAID 5 setup on an HP DL360 with a P400i RAID card. I added two more 1 TB drives and using the SmartStart ACU, added the drives and expanded the logical disk.
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Cabling order on ProLiant DL180 G5 with SmartArray P800 and 3 x MSA 60 enclosures
For some reason I need to power up a system full of data without having any documentation about cabling.
I have :
1x Proliant DL 180 G5 with P800
3x full loaded smart array 60 with probably 2 ...
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HP ProLiant ML350 G6 Server
I have a HP ProLiant ML350 G6 Server. I installed windows server 2008 standard edition. There are 60 clients connected to this server.
The server only detects one HDD and I have 2 146gb HDDs. I read ...
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How to access to install/check software on a ESXi 5 to view system hardware
I have the following:
2 x DL585 G1 (8 cores) with built in Smart Array 5i (4 x 74GB SCSI in
Raid 5)
I installed VMware ESXi 5 and got it all working :)
When I boot my server up, it states the ...
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HP DL585 G1 with VMware ESXi 5 - SATA solution, need more storage
I have the following:
2 x DL585 G1 (8 cores) with built in Smart Array 5i (2 x 74GB SCSI in Raid 0)
I installed VMware ESXi 5 and got it all working :)
However I need more space.
I was thinking ...
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HP SmartArray P400: How to repair failed logical drive?
I have a HP Server with SmartArray P400 controller (incl. 256 MB Cache/Battery Backup) with a logicaldrive with replaced failed physicaldrive that does not rebuild.
This is how it looked when I ...
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HP ProLiant ML350 G6: Does the RAID rebuild automatically?
One of sas hd of this ML350 died...
We're buying a new one and I wanted to ask if I can just take out the faulty one and insert the new one with the server on to let it rebuild the raid or I'm forced ...
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Using the spare drive in an HP Proliant DL380 G4
I have an HP Proliant DL380 G4 with a Smart Array 6i controller and 6 hard drives. 5 of the drives are configured as a RAID 5 array, and 1 is designated as a hot spare.
The server has just given me a ...
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3answers
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Slow parity initialization of RAID-5 array on HP Smart Array P411 controller
On 29th October 2011, I built a RAID-5 array using 4 x 146.8GB Seagate SAS ST3146855SS drives running at 15k connected to a PowerEdge R515 with HP Smart Array P411 controller running Windows 2008 (so ...
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Can I convert a 1 disk RAID 0 to RAID 1?
This is dangerously close to question 18957, but it isn't quite the same.
One of my logical drives on my P410i is a single disk RAID 0 (because I was short sighted at the time). It's now warning ...
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Smart Array P600: Can't get drives recognized on port 2i
Extensive searching proved fruitless (and aggravating), so I'm moving from lurker to poster, finally! :)...
I have an HP ProLiant ML-350 G4p that I just converted from SCSI to an SAS/SATA machine ...
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2answers
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Smart Array P410 RAID controller fails creating logical disk with 2x1TB WD drives
I'm trying to build a new box with
an Intel DQ670W Motherboard (8GB RAM + i5/2500)
an HP SmartArray P410/512 RAID controller (with battery)
2x WD10EALX 1TB SATA drives
I'm falling at (almost) the ...
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Identify HP Array Logical Drive From Windows
Probably something simple, but I'm trying to identify which logical drive in my HP Server's Array relates to a particular disk presented in Windows Server 2003.
So I have a Proliant DL580 G5 server ...
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How can I speed up the build of a Logical Drive on a HP Smart Array P411?
Is there anything I can do to speed up the creation of the HP Smart Array logical drives?
Does creating too many drives at the same time affect the overall performance?
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HP SmartArray P400 has slow read and write speed
I have desktop in which I installed HP SmartArray P400 controller with two HP DF0146B8052 hard drives. I made RAID0 logical volume from them, but I am getting 20MB/s write speed and ~140-120MB/s read ...
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How can I force HP Smart Array RAID controller to re-recognize drives?
I have an HP ProLiant DL180 G5 server with a Smart Array E200 RAID controller. The RAID controller is refusing to recognize inserted drives as an array. The story so far...
This server (our file ...
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RAID Configuration
Is it possible with the HP Smart Array P410i to create 4 arrays from 6 disks in the following way:
2 of them in a RAID 10
4 of them used as single disks
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RAID P410i and P812 performance issues [closed]
I'm having much trouble with I/O performance of HP DL360 server with two RAID controllers - P410i and P812, Windows Server 2008, 36 GiB RAM and 16 x Intel Xeon x5550. The server runs a bunch of tasks ...
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HP SmartArray E200i - convert one non-RAID disk to RAID-1
Is it possible to convert one non-RAID disk to RAID-1 by adding a disk, without losing data or reinstalling Windows Server 2003? HP ACU cannot install, so I figured to do it from BIOS, but wanted to ...
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ways to limit disk IO utilization to raid array partition
I have a raid array partition that is under heavy load by an nfs server, recently it has failed a quite a few times and needed intervention while at 100% utilization.
While I am determining the cause ...
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Multiple RAID arrays on HP Smart Array E200i controller
We currently have a HP ML350 G5 server with 3 disks in a RAID-5 array. Is it possible to add more disks, and have them setup in a seperate RAID array on the E200i controller. I.e. not just adding ...
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RAID Array performance on an HP Proliant ML350 G5 Smart Array E200i
We have a client who is complaining about performance of an application which utilizes an MS SQL database. They do not believe the performance issues are the fault of the application itself.
The ...
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Having more than 2 logical drives in a HP ML350 G6
I've begun setup of a HP ML350 G6 and I've hit a wall. I've got 2 RAID drives (each having 2 HDDs in a mirror). I've now come to put a couple of extra disks into the server and it won't let me create ...
