Was trying out a new HP ML350 G10 with a P408i raid card. Installed the OS (directly, obviously the intelligent provisioning doesn't support the OS yet) and used the most recent SPP to get all the drivers loaded.
No bangs in device manager, all things registered fine. Even got the matrox driver loaded and the right resolution.
However, the one thing I can't get to go is the array configuration utility, or smart storage administrator, whatever way you prefer to refer to it. It installs fine, but when ran, sees no raid card. I can create and manage arrays fine at the BIOS level, what I had to do to use the rest of my RAID 10 space for a new drive.
But I really like to see the status of RAID arrays on production servers. So I don't want to deploy without this functionality. But to me it seems really pointless to install 2016 server now on a brand new server, considering how far we are into live support, and what support times are left. I don't see much value to go with a 3+ year old OS for something I'm deploying next month.
Anyone know if there are any workarounds? Since so far everything else seems fine with 2019 server, I'm half tempted to leave it as is and just wait for an update to the SPP or something. But while this will simply be a hyper-V host, and so I'm not to worried about the OS itself since I can pull the VHDX files to another if I need, I don't want to do that if it's going to be TOO long before HP gets current.
I'm actually a bit disappointed that after the beta time, and a month and a half since GA, that this is even still a failure. Even support was unable to figure out a way around the issue...
Thanks for any information.
John