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HP ML350 G5 Smart Array E200i battery voltage not low
I have a similar problem like this: HP ML350 G5 Smart Array E200i battery error
Gets error message that says it is low voltage power on battery. Has measured voltages of the battery and it is exactly ...
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Need to physically move a MSA60 over one row in the rack - do I need to power it down? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to correctly move a server inside a rack up and down
Just wondering what people's thoughts are on moving a MSA60 over one rack. I have plenty of free cable slack, ...
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Reconfigure HP Smart Array RAID 50 with larger drives
We have an HP ML 350 G6 with an HP smartArray 410i controller. Running Ubuntu x64.
We previously had 8 146G drives configured as a 820GB raid 50 logical drive.
Now I have replaced 4 146GB drives ...
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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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How HP D2700 disk enclosure is monitored for alarms via SNMP
We have HP D2700 disk enclosure and we would like to monitor D2700 (connected to HP Proliant DL360G8) for alarms.I have following questions regarding this.
What are the options available for ...
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HP MSA60 complains that new drives are faulty
We got some replacement drives from HP PN 454273-001 1TB 7.2k drives. We put them into the msa. It completes rebuild but when we run the hp insight diagnostics tests. It comes back as read write error ...
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ML350 G5 - upgrade hot swap drives to 6 Gb/s?
I support a non profit. They got an ML350 G5 donated to them and I immediately put it to good use for them :) It came with four HP 300GB 15K SAS drives - and of course, they have all now failed. I ...
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HP ACU shows parity initialization failed on Smart Array controller
I put in a new drive due to a hard drive failure. When the rebuild got to 100%, the controller fails and I need to reboot the server to bring it online. I had to do this about three times and it ...
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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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HP ML350 G5 Smart Array E200i battery error
We have replaced the server with a new battery pack but still getting the error.
Can you tell what is wrong with it, as it is urgent before the server generates more errors.
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DL180 G6 12 bay backplane connections
I have an HP DL180 G6 12 bay server with a P212 Raid card. I can not open the server to see inside but I would like to know what connections the backplane has. Right now it has 6 1TB hdd attached. ...
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HP Proliant ML150 G3 physical drive size limit
Apologies if this is a rather silly question, but I'm not very savvy when it comes to interpreting server documentation. The documentation ...
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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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6 Disk Raid 1+0
I have an HP Smart Array P400i raid controller, with 6 disks, working in a RAID 1+0. This is what it looks like:
Mirror Group 0:
physicaldrive 1I:1:1 (port 1I:box 1:bay 1, SAS, 72 GB, ...
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How do you take a physical drive offline using HP P410i RAID card
How do you take a physical drive offline using HP P410i RAID card ?
Specifically in a RAID1 array I want to use hpacucli tool to take a physical drive offline then online to test if RAID1 array ...
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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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RAID5 on SmartArray P410i online resize
I have P410i+256M Cache without battery backup.
My RAID5 was build over 3*136GB disks, now all disks were replaced to a 3*300GB array.
How can I extend it to use the whole space?
HPacucli doesn't ...
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SAS enclosure doesn't restart - MSA60
I just inherited a HP StorageWorks MSA60 (this is a direct-attach SAS enclosure).
I had to move it to another shelf so I turned off the computer which was using it. I also pulled the 2 power cords off ...
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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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How do I get my HP servers to email me when a drive fails?
Ideally, with as simple of install as possible and without requiring rebooting the servers. Mostly for DL380 G5's if it helps. Thanks.
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How to diagnose storage system scaling problems?
We are currently testing the maximum sequential read throughput of a storage system
(48 disks total behind two HP P2000 arrays) connected to HP DL580 G7 running RHEL 5 with 128 GB of memory.
Initial ...
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How to implement cheap LFF 3.5“ SATA storage on a HP ProLiant ML350 G6 with 2.5” SFF SAS
In a series of bad, hasty decisions, a HP ProLiant ML350 G6 server was bought for file server use at my place of work. The intention was to build a FreeNAS 8 server using cheap 3.5" SATA drives.
Only ...
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HP Smart Array p410i rebuild percentage not correctly working
I have a HP Poliant with a p410i and when I rebuild my raid 5 with a quick remove and insert to test the rebuild percentage goes up to 10% and then jumps to 92%. I continues up to 100% and the Array ...
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SATA drives in HP ProLiant server?
Does anyone know if I can install normal 2.5" SATA drives inside an HP DL360 G5 server? Right now it has 6 72GB SAS drives. I am looking for raw storage for my files SAS performance in not required.
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NHS WD Drive into HS HP DL180 G6 (SATA) Slot
I'm trying to find out if Non Hot Swap drives can be plugged into Hot Swap slots on a HP DL180 G6 server. I've been searching around but haven't found the answer I am looking for. I also can't find ...
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Can a Dell Poweredge R200 server be connected to HP D2600 Storageworks Disk Enclosure?
Can I setup a Dell Poweredge R200 server to use a HP D2600 Storageworks Disk enclosure by using a controller such as PERC 6e or the HP p412 / p410 (??) or other compatible controller in the Dell R200?
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HP DL370 G6 expansion
we are running a HP DL370 server with 6 x 300 gb disks on RAID 5. Due to a Windows update causing our server to fail recently, we couldn't access the data. I now want to separate the data from the OS ...
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Incredible low disk performance on HP DL385 G7
As a test of the Opteron processor family, I bought a HP DL385 G7 6128 with HP Smart Array P410i Controller - no memory.
The machine has 20GB ram
2x146GB 15k rpm SAS + 2x250GB SATA2, both in Raid 1 ...
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Maximum single SATA disk size in Proliant ML350 G6
I have a freshly configured HP Proliant ML350 G6 (initially diskless) server running Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise.
Is it possible to use four 1.5Tb disks in an internal RAID10 array in Proliant ...
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DL380 G4 - How to properly configure raid arrays
All,
I have a DL380 G4 server with the following drives:
2x 36.4GB - 15K
2x 36.4GB - 10K
2x 300GB - 10K
I'm trying to figure out how best to configure these drives. This is the first time I'm ...
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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 ...
