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windows 7 on hp proliant DL160 G9 [closed]

I have a Proliant DL160 Gen9 that I have been asked to install Windows 7 on, even though no Windows 7 drivers seems to be available from HP. The reason for Win 7 instead of a more appropriate server ...
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What is the maximum physical drive size on an HP p420i RAID controller?

How big hard drives can be used with an HP p420i RAID controller? HP mentions that 8 TB drives can be used.
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How can i test my SAS Controller card? [closed]

I am in need of testing my Dell SAS Controller card. I am seeing too many errors on a Raidz2 installation, since last July, than to possibly be true. Its as if one drive after another keeps spinning-...
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Adding New Drives to Dell R720 in RAID 1 Configuration w/ Dell Lifecycle Controller

I have a Dell R720 with two 136GB drives set up on an existing virtual disc running RAID 1. I've run out of room, purchased two additional 600GB SAS 15K drives I'd like to set up for RAID 1 also to be ...
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move raid hard drives between different servers, preserving data [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Move raided hard drives between identical servers, preserving data I'm a server beginner working with a Sun x4600 and an IBM x3650. In the event that one of them dies, I want ...
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Move raided hard drives between identical servers, preserving data

I have a raid array of hard drives in a Sun x4600 that need to be moved out, and another Sun x4600 ready to accept those hard drives. The problem is: in my limited experience with servers, it seems ...
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HP DL380 G4 smart array controller error

i have one HP server Proliant DL380 G4 with an error at bios post when he try to verify the smart array controller. Error is: 1783-Slot 0 array controller is in lock up state due to a hardware ...
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Improving Hard Drive controllers and Software RAID [closed]

I believe the biggest pro of hardware RAID is that, providing your RAID controller is battery backed, you can enable write-back cache. This can also be achieved similarly through software RAID with ...
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HP P800 PCI controller disables(!) HP 410i internal controller

I have a HP DL360 G6 server with a very strange RAID controller behavior. I installed a P800 PCI RAID Controller card and all of the sudden I cannot access my hard drives that are connected to the ...
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Can I configure a RAID 1 on the Dell Poweredge 860 with the onboard SATA Controller

Is there a way to set up a RAID 1 with two SATA HDD on a DELL Poweredge 860 that has no specific RAID Controller? I want to use the on board SATA controller to set up my RAID 1.
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How to determine the real disk size of an hardware RAID?

I have a Fujitsu Primergy TX200 S3 server running Win Server 2003 R2 SP2. It has hardware-RAID using an LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS 8300XLP RAID Controller. I simply want to find the size of each disk in ...
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2 JBOD enclosures 1 RAID controller vs 2 RAID enclosures

In term of scalability of performance and price, what would be better for a small business with around 20 users. I am targeting around 45TB of storage via SAS. Here are my options: Buy 2 JBOD ...
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AOC-S3108L-H8iR SAS Fault LED

The system was working fine when suddenly the drives were no longer available. Upon further inspection I found that the SAS Fault LED was lit on the RAID card and the megaraid software no longer show ...
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HP Proliant ML350 G5 - smart array initializing

I have a big problem with a HP ProLiant ML350 G5 with 2 SAS HDD 146GB. It start with the message : "Slot 0 HP Smart Array E200i ... initializing" without any error message. if I test the HDD ...
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Merge two sas card into one

I have one existing raid card (9240-8i)with 8 sas hdd, but i want to add 8 more hdd with another raid card (same model), but i wan to merge with existing raid and add it as expansion, can it be done?
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Gparted not detecting controller after removing a drive

Ran into a weird scenario. Installed 5 hotswap HDD drives on a HP SmartArray P410 RAID controller running RAID-5. Went into Gparted and created different partitions. Realized one of the drives was ...
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PCI-X RAID controllers compatible with Intel X25 SSDs

Is there any compatibility list published for Intel X25-E/M SSDs and various RAID controllers? In particular, I am looking to retrofit some Intel X25s to an XW9300, so I need to find a PCI-X SAS/SATA ...
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Replace SAS disk for HP ProLiant 380DL Raid1

I have HP Proliant Server 380DL G9 with 5 SAS disks, (2 disks for raid 1,also 2 disks raid 1 and the last one is raid 0) one of the disks in the 1st raid 1 is flashing orange, so its recommended to ...
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How to disable redundant path warning for a d2600 with 12 HP SATA drives?

Have a HP p822 RAID controller with FirmWare 8.32 cabled to a HPE d2600 with 12 x 4TB SATA drives in RAID60. These are not dual-port SAS drives, but 4TB SATA drives so there is only one pathway to ...
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Connect Tape Drive to H330

I'm re-purposing a Dell T430 server. It has an H730 connected to some disks for the OS and storage. It also has an H330, which I'm trying to use to connect an older Tandberg HH LTO4 tape drive. ...
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How to get the raid controller make and model on a IBM Server?

I currently have a IBM IBM eserver xSeries 346 with Windows Server and according to device manager it has a IBM eserver xSeries 346 IBM ServerRaid 7k controller. How can I get the make and model? to ...
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Hardware raid, LVM and KVM cache policy

I have a question about right cache policy for KVM using LVM and hardware raid-controller. So from the bottom: 1. We have LSI RAID controller 9260, 512Mb cache and BBU. Later we also will have ...
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Intel RAID controller cannot open BIOS and doesn't recognize hard drives

I recently bought a second-hand Intel RAID controller (SRCSASLS4I) for my Ubuntu server setup (YunoHost actually). I connected 3 hard drives that had previously been used for a software RAID (I did ...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 Slow File Copy

I recently installed Windows Standard Server 2008 R2 with SP1 on an HP Proliant ML350 G5. This server has Sql Server 2008 Express with a few very small databases, and acts as a file and print share ...
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Server raid doesn't boot in the morning

We have a HP Proliant ML350 G6 with integrated sas raid controller. Since 3 days the server starts up in the morning without this raid. All othe HDDs / SDDs are ok. We did install the ServicePack ...
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Installing drivers on HP B320i Controller Card?

In order to get vCenter to recognize the logical array that has been created, it looks like I need to update the Controller Card drivers. I think I have found them here http://h20566.www2.hp.com/...
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How do you get into the interface on a ProLiant DL 366 G7 and set RAID? (Smart Array 410 P)

How do you get into the interface on a ProLiant DL 366 G7 and set RAID? Into the Smart Array P410 controller?
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Lost rebuilding state after every reboot on server with raid controller P410i/zero memory

I have installed a server HP Proliant ML350 with P410i RAID controller with Zero memory, (windows 2008 standard running). I have set up Raid 1+0 with two hard disk SAS and, as usually, I tested raid ...
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System Event ID 9 pointing to \Device\Scsi\fttxr5_O1 happens at the same time daily

OS: Windows 2003 Roles: Exchange Server, Primary DNS Server Device: Promise TX4310 The problem: Almost every day for the last couple of months at around 8:00 PM (no earlier than 8:02, no later than 8:...
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What RAID controller for ESXi 4 on Optiplex 330

What HW RAID controller to use with Dell Optiplex 330 running vmware esxi 4? I found e.g Adaptec RAID 2405 is ESXi 4 compatible but I'm not sure whether it will work in PCIe 16x slot as I red ...
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Why would one need a SAS-SATA controller card?

These are used in servers and NAS devices. But why would it really be necessary? Is it mostly to offload the RAID management and calculations to a different CPU than the one from the machine? Or does ...
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Windows Server crash with multiple RAID controllers

I have 4 controllers on Proliant DL580 G7: P410i, LSI9261, P812, P410.After adding last two or one OS (Windows Server) started to crash. Eliminating last two helped (disabling them in RBSU). But I ...
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Silicon Image Raid5 search for data recovery options [closed]

In a HP server with windows 2008-R2. There is a PCI Silicon Image SATA raid controller with 4 SATA disks. In the controller is a config to make them in a Raid5 config. Windows is seeing them as 1 ...
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Adding second RAID controller to a motherboard with onboard RAID controller [closed]

One of our server ASUS M4N78AM motherboard that comes with an onboard RAID controller. We have already utilised it and are running out of space. Would it be possible to install an additional RAID ...
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What is meant by outstanding IO request in a host controller (e.g. HBA/RAID card)

In context of a host controller (HBA/RAID card) which sends IO traffic to SAS/SATA drives which are part of logical volume - so in such setup, generally I hear a term "Outstanding commands". I did got ...
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Write performance issues with SSD RAID 10 on P840/4gb fbwc

I have a new system with 4x512GB Samsung SSD 850 in a RAID10 array using P840/4gb fbwc RAID controller. When i download a file from network (10 Gbit/s) write speed is not that good. I tried ...
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