HP’s $1,000 RAID Controller is outclassed by on-board raid? [closed]

Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Server Fault. Closed 6 years ago. Improve this question HP’s $1,000 Smart Array P822 controller is outclassed by an on-board raid controller. I’m having a hell of a time trying to figure … Read more

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. Also, I pulled one of the drives during the early part of the copying procedure and replaced it, just … Read more

Data recovery from deleted raid array

Hello I deleted a raid 1 array on a hp b110i and I wanted to know if it is possible to recover the data. Also if Windows server was on the array that was deleted can it be recovered. Thanks Answer It’s possible to recover the data, provided no other actions have been taken on … Read more

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 1I:1:5 – 146gb 2I:1:1 – 146gb 2I:1:2 – 146gb 2I:1:3 – 146gb 2I:1:4 – 146gb I also have … Read more

Red Hat 5.3 on HP Proliant DL380 G5 and failed drive on RAID controller

I have a development ERP server here in my office that I assist with support on, and originally the DBA requested a single drive setup for some of the drives on the server. Thus the hardware RAID controller (an HP embedded controller) looks like: c0d0 (2 drive) RAID-1 c0d1 (2 drive) RAID-1 c0d2 (1 drive) … Read more

HP Proliant DL380 Gen9 [closed]

Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Server Fault. Closed 4 years ago. Improve this question I have HP proliant DL380 Gen9 I do the installation oracle linux 6.4 and installation does not detect the logical drive created. i … Read more

High IO latency on ESXi 4.1 on HP DL580 G7

at my Company we were experiencing some weird spikes on IO latency on one of our ESXi instances. we’ve spend 24h figuring out whats wrong and no clue so far. after giving up we put all the disks into a different server (HP DL380 G7) with much less RAM and only one 6(HT) cores (from … Read more

proliant 380gl g5 raid drive rebuilt but leds are both lit bright green

After replacing a failed Raid 5 146gig SAS drive in logical drive 2 yesterday the system reports all is good but the LEDs on the front of the drive are both on and the one on the left is bright green. Any thoughts? and both lit LEDs are green. Answer Healthy drives should display green … Read more

HP Smart Array 6i upgrade firmware on Ubuntu

How can I upgrade the firmware of my HP Array controller 6i? can I upgrade using hpacucli? or any other CLI utility? The server that I want to upgrade is a HP Proliant DL360 G4 with Ubuntu Server. Thanks. Answer That server predates Ubuntu! It’s too old 🙂 But honestly, you’ll need an old HP … Read more