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"Smart Array" is the name used by Hewlett-Packard's line of enterprise-grade RAID controllers.

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Getting a RAID controller to surface scan on a sane schedule

The controller I'm presently working with is quite old, the HP Smart Array P400; in part I want to know how to deal with that controller, but I'm also interested in the general perspective -- if there ...
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HP SmartArray Rebuild Logical Drive without data loss

First, let me explain our situation: We had an HP server with a RAID 1 over 2 drives (for the OS) and a RAID 5 over 4 drives (for VM data). The raid recently failed. I say the word failed very ...
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HP H240. does it do HW SATA RAID?

I have some needs to get cheap HP 1U for very low end purposes. I'm thinking about DL160 but I have no experience with the low end models. Does the H240 "controller" works with SATA drives? I ...
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HP DL360 Gen9: Smart Storage Administrator hangs loading config from P440ar; BIOS sees P440ar controller, but no disks

I have been scanning the entire web (or so) for possible similar cases, but to no avail. Situation: DL360 Gen9, BIOS version P89 v2.92 (2021) P440ar installed, firmware 7.20 the (F9) System ...
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Smart Array P420i, Logical Drive failed, best way to re-enable

I have a HP Proliant ML380p Gen8 server with a P420i controller where one of the logical drives suddenly failed. Screenshot Smart Storage Administrator From what I could see in the Smart Storage ...
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Acessing HP Disk Array from Linux

I have some old HP Proliant GL5 with HP P400i array controllers that I want to put to some use. In a small test I have booted with Archlinux, and it was able to list the array card and network ...
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Smart array P212 error code 727

We recently purchased HP DL380P GEN8 server and D3700 enclosure with 20TB of disks. I wanted to connect both servers with Smart Array P212 but I encountered and error once I tried to configure the ...
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install disks with raid on a controller of the same model? without losing data. hp dl160 g9 - b140i

I have an HP DL160 Gen 9 server with 4 disk drives, 2 HDD with RAID 1 and 2 SSD with RAID 1. This server is restarting repeatedly when the esxi System boots. If I install these 4 disks on an identical ...
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How to replace a hard disk in SMART array 410i controller, RAID 1 + 0

I have a HP ProLiant DL360 G7 server (ILO3). Recently I have been receiving a SMART error message related to drivers. When checked The Array configuration it was found that, There are total 8 disks. ...
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HP Smart Array P812 HBA mode Masked Drives

I have an HP Smart Array P812 card flashed to HBA mode. Kernel patched Linux for this module, Ubuntu 22. Everything was working a week ago, I had passthrough of the drives, I even used them to test ...
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HPE Smart Array P410 - Replacing failed drive of a degraded mirror with a new one using ssacli with the failed drive kept connected?

A server is using attached drives without the HP hot-plug drive cage, with drives attached to P410 using two SFF8087 -> 4x SAS SFF8482 cables. I can add new drives while running, but cannot remove ...
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HP Proliant DL380 Gen9 - - Logical Drive 1 has failed Re-enable failed logical

I have a HP Proliant DL360 Gen9 Server, everything working fine. but suddenly server is not bootable, booting time we got three errors. listed below. 313-HP smart storage battery 1 failure - Battery ...
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Increasing RAID1 (mirror) redundancy in HP Smart Array P410?

Please is it possible to add a third (or more) drives to a mirror (RAID1) in P410? IIUC it would mean creating "Mirror Group 3" (or more). I could not find any way to add a new mirror group ...
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Debian Wheezy drivers for HP ProLiant DL360 Gen9 RAID controller

I bought 2 HP DL360 Gen9 Servers and wanted install Debian Wheezy on those with PXE Boot network install. But it seems that Wheezy does not include a driver for the Smart Array Controllter p440ar/2g. ...
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HP Smart Array B140i S2D

I try to create a S2D with my HP DL380 Smart Array B140i. I have all bays with SSDs and want to use bays 5-8 for a S2D. I need to configure the array controllor (or the BIOS?) to make the drives ...
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HP DL360 Gen 8 not recognizing SSDs

I have HP DL360 Gen 8 Server with P420i controller. I've populated it with 4x1TB HDDs and 2x1TB SSDs. HDDs are recognized correctly and they are visible in controller configuration tool (smart array), ...
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How to force array rebuild on HP smart array (ssacli)

i recently replaced a failed drive on my HW RAID 5 array in my home server. i am running a custom built machine (read: built from whatever parts i thought might fit together). the HW RAID controller ...
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HP DL360 G6 ssd on raid 1 with smart array p410i write verry slow, how to fix it?

I just bought a HP DL360G6 server with a P410i RAID card with 256mb cache. I am using Windows server 2012 I use Intel 520 series 240GB SSDs in raid 1+0, but the speed is very slow. I checked the speed ...
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HP SmartArray: how to extend a fully populated RAID1+0

I have a bunch of machines with HPE Smart Array P408i-a controllers and fully populated drive bays, and I was wondering if there is a way to extend the arrays without dissolving them and reinstalling ...
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HP ProLiant DL380 G7 (P410i) compatible drives

I have recently been looking to do an upgrade on my server recently by upgrading to using SSDs (2.5 inch). I have done a lot of late night googling and have found that many drives have an issue with ...
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Disabling RAID feature on HP Smart Array P400

I'm planning to use ZFS on my system (HP ML370 G5, Smart Array P400, 8 SAS disk). I want ZFS to manage all disks individually, so it can utilize better scheduling (i.e. I want to use software RAID ...
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Increase server's logical drive support

I have an HPE ProLiant DL360p Gen8 Server, with one P420i controller. As I read in its specification, the controller's limit is 2 logical drives. What part(s) should I buy in order to increase it to 8 ...
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HP ML350 Replacing a Drive Marked as Predicted to Fail

We have an ML350P Gen8 server with an HP Smart Array P420i. Three 300GB drives are combined in RAID5. Of these, one drive is showing a flashing amber light (predictive failure). The cache for the ...
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hpacucli is unstable - Sometimes finds controller, sometimes not

I try to monitor the RAID-status on my HP ProLiant DL380 G5 with hpacucli 9.20. But, it's acting rather weird. Most of the time, it will return: root@SERVER:~# hpacucli ctrl all show Error: No ...
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Debian on HP Gen9 — most recent hpssacli appears to be too old

I've installed a recent Debian 10 Buster system on to the server, which is HPE DL360 Gen9. It has P440ar adapter, which works with the "new" hpsa driver. As far as I remember, RAIDs were configured ...
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Windows Server 2019 Hyper-V guest disk performance

I have a site who run a very IO-sensitive application (Accredo Saturn); it's an accounting/CRM package written in Delphi with a local flat-file database. For various historical reasons the site was ...
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RAID performance with 10xSSD on an HP P420i [closed]

I am planning to use 10x 8TB Samsung 870 QVO SATA III 2.5" SSD in an HP DL360 G8 server that uses P420i smart array controller. Each SSD has a max of 530 MBs speed in sequential reads. ...
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Is it possible to replace the SATA CD-ROM to SATA SSD on HP DL360p Gen8?

Can I connect an SDD instead of CD-ROM ? I found Miscellaneous cable kit 671353-001, include Includes the front video adapter cable, embedded SATA cable, Capacitor Pack with 36-inch cable (provides ...
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HP MSA P2000 G3 Disk Scrubbing performance?

I have a HP P2000 G3 array with two 10Gbit iSCSI controllers in it that presents storage to my virtualisation cluster. It is soon to be expanded with two D2700 shelves each loaded with 25 10k RPM ...
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find out RAID level on HP DL360 server

I have a HP ProLiant DL360 Gen9 server which has three physical 900GB HDDs. Those three HDDs are in some sort of hardware RAID setup. RAID controller is HP 3239 and it uses hpsa driver. For OS it ...
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HPE 1.92TB SATA 6G Mixed Use SFF SSD very slow compared to SAS HDD HP disks

In below screenshot, I benchmarked 3 machines, 4 Drives. my main production based on DL580, HPE 1.92TB SATA 6G Mixed Use SFF SSD RAID 1. MySQL insert time of 1 million rows is ~ 30 seconds in the SSD,...
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Cabling for SAS controller and SuperMicro BPN-SAS-825TQ

I´ve managed to get one of the SuperMicro low-end server to my lab. It is chassis 825TQ-R740LPB with a BPN-SAS-825TQ backplane. The specification document is saying, that this backplane is SAS ...
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Smart Array P822 with HBA Mode?

We get an HP DL360 G8 with an Smart Array P822 controller. On that controller will come a HP StorageWorks D2700. Does anybody know, that it is possible to run the Smart Array P822 in HBA mode? I ...
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Can HP Proliant server be set to use no RAID?

I recently purchased 2 HP Proliant DL380 G6 servers for the purpose of virtulization; each will be a new host in our VMware environment. I know that I will get heat for this, but I do not want to use ...
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Linux doesn't boot when HP HBA controller is connected

I have an HP H240 Smart HBA. On Windows 10, it works without a problem, but any Linux I tested refuses to boot with a connected controller. Platform: AMD B450 (AM4, various processors) List of tested ...
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Can we move the RAID array from one HP Server models to another HP models or one RAID controller model to another Controller model

In case my HP Proliant DL380 G6 & G7 failed, can I swap all HDD to HP Proliant DL380 G9. HP Proliant DL380 G7 is using the different controller (HP Smart Array Controllers P410i) and HP Proliant ...
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MSA70 Upgrade options

Recently I purchased MSA70. Unfortunately I did read specs properly. In my project, I need as much I/O operations as possible. MSA70 is only 3Gbps, so my question is: is it any possibility to upgrade ...
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Smart Array P812 External ports don't detect backplane with SAS HDDs

I've found some articles that P812 do not see SATA drives via external ports after updating firmware 5.14 and above. But I can't find any mentions about restrictions with SAS hard drives. (I have two ...
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Can I expand the Logical Drive on an HP P410 live?

I have an HP Smart Array P410 w/FBWC with 4 drives configured as RAID-5. Originally, I had 4 x 500meg drives, with 1 Logical Drive of 1.5T configured. I have just swapped the 4x500MB drives for 4x4T ...
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HP DL380e Gen8 NMI error

I have an HP DL380e Gen8 with P420 RAID controller it was powered on 24h per day at my previous job for 7 Months without any issues running a few VMs. After changing job I had the server at home for ...
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HPE SSA: After completing the configuration - reboot the system

From the HPE ProLiant System Utilities (BIOS) I booted into HPE Smart Storage Administrator (SSA) to migrate a logical drive with RAID6 (and existing data) to RAID5. After starting the migration task, ...
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Can't Remove Logical Drive/Array from HP P400

This is my first post here. Thank you in advance for any assistance with this matter. I'm trying to remove a logical drive (logical drive 2) and an array (array "B") from my Smart Array P400. The ...
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Setting up raid hardware with out deleting data

so I have a home lab, and in the beginning, I started with only 1 DISK, and in the raid config, I bypassed the raid because I didn't have 2 disks to make a RAID 10 or 1, but now, I want some ...
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What is a HP Smart Array P822 Transient Data Drive

We had a disk go bad on one of our HP servers. It is a RAID 60. We had 2 drives in the system that weren't assigned to an array yet. We rebooted went into the array and clicked the failed/BAD drive. ...
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Third-party SSD solutions in ProLiant Gen8 servers

I was wondering if anyone had any specific experience using Intel DC3700 SSDs (or similar) in the HP (DL380p) Gen8 servers? I'm upgrading a set of database servers that use direct-attached storage. ...
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Enable Smart Array P400 HP Proliant DL 120 G7

I have a HP ProLiant D7 120DL with a Smart Array P400. After doing BIOS "Restore Default System Settings" the Smart Array can't see the drives attached to it. When starting the server, Smart ...
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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 2,...
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Hp Proliant DL120 G7 won't show ORCA

I have on old server, HP Proliant DL120 G7. I configured it with 4 500GB Hard Disk in RAID 10. With this configuration I was able to enter in ORCA setup and the hard drives where connected. Then I ...
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HPACUCLI Remotely make active spare permanent member

We have an old HP server - we let the HPE contract expire as it'll be decom'd soon, and our monitoring has flagged a failed disk. For various reasons it's difficult to organise access to the server, ...
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DL380p Gen8 E5-2640v2 p420i smart array controller dead

HP DL380p Gen8 E5-2640v2 US Svr/S-Buy Product ID: 653200-B21 Hey there I've got the dreaded but not uncommon: Slot 0 HP Smart Array P420i Controller nitializing… 1783-Slot 0 Drive Array Controller ...

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