Re: How to identify drive bay
Not 100% sure about this special controller, but on all other smart arrays you just select the drive in physical view and the blue LED will go on. Port 1i, Box 1, Bay 1 is the most left slot in the...
View ArticleB320i Raid 5 Expansion/Extend
Good day to you all, We bought a DL380e Gen8 with smartarray B320i. Only one Raid 5 volume was created with 4x600GB SAS at the initial setup.Now we need to allocate more space to this volume and i was...
View ArticleDL180 G6 Rear PCIe Kit
I have a DL180 G6 with option part 507263-001 installed on the rear.. I no longer need the two drives on the rear but instead i want to have (if possible) two PCIe cards to install extra network...
View ArticleML110 G6 Fan Failure
I have an HP ML110 G6 that just reset. The event viewer indicates that Fan 2 had been removed. Checking the history this has been going on for several months. Exact error is: System Information Agent:...
View ArticleDual Booting Server
Hi all, I have a client who wants to upgrade their server from Server 2003 (x86) to Server 2008 R2 (x64). As an in-place upgrade is not supported, the manager has decided for me to look into a dual...
View Article1783 smart controller E200i
Hi, I am getting a "1783 - Slot 0 Drive Array Controller Failure! [Controller Self-test failure]"After reading through a whole bunch of posts. I am wondering now what exactly the solution is.I just...
View ArticleHP ML150 G6 Raid 5 expand
Hi, currently we have HP ML150 G6 with HP Smart Array P410/256MB RAID Controller configuration : 3 physical drive @500 GB , SAS hot plug Raid 5 , at slot 2 the question is , is it possible to expand...
View ArticleRe: 1783 smart controller E200i
The cache module could be bad or even the controller itself.
View ArticleRe: Dual Booting Server
I would remove the 2003 disks, insert new disks and create an array on them.Or you may have a look into ORCA and set the boot array (this is possible for most smart arrays with current firmware).
View ArticleRe: Drive sizes
Kindly specify which generation of DL380 you are referring to. Regards, Vijayasarathy
View ArticleRe: API to retrieve iLo 2 logs
You may consider using HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM) http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/hpsim/index.html or HP Insight Remote Support:...
View ArticleProliant ML 350 G5
Hi,We have an ML 350 G5 and we would like to use it as a storage server only. I am not really clued up with servers and raid configuration but I know PCs in and out. My question is that what do I need...
View ArticleRe: Proliant ML 350 G5
Large Form Factor 3.5" drives can only be installed in on tower or rack models with LFF chassis models and Small Form Factor 2.5" drives can only be installed on tower or rack models with SFF...
View ArticleRe: Proliant ML 350 G5
Hi, Many thanks for your help. I suspect that the drive cage (where the SAS drives are in) is damaged as the server gets started regularly, anyway this is besides the point, so I want to bypass the...
View ArticleHP DL360p G8 raid speed
Server: HP DL360p G8Raid: Smart Array P420i/2GB+FBWCHDD: 4x512GB SSD Samsung 840 Pro (RAID0 stripesize 256kb)OS: Windows 2008 R2 64Bit Hi, Problem is that read/write operations are really slow and...
View ArticleHP Support Wizard is RUBBISH at helping establish warrenty status
A 750W hot-plug power module (512327-B21) stopped working. It's in a ML330 G6. Fortunately it's one of a pair. The label says it has Serial Number CEXD1017176740. I go to the Support Wizard and enter...
View ArticleRe: DL 180 G6 BMC firmware fault after HP Support pack online upgrade
This unfortunately did not work. For the others in the future: The final solution for my case was to change the motherboard (it was - luckily from my point of view - in warranty) and the HP support was...
View ArticleRe: HP Integrated management Log viewer 6.0 feedback
I loved that feature as well. Please bring it back!
View ArticleRe: API to retrieve iLo 2 logs
You can use the HP Lights-Out XML Scripting Sample for Windows to get both the iLO Log and the server IML logs. Included in the package is cpqlocfg.exe for windows and the locfg.pl Perl script for...
View ArticleRe: HP Support Wizard is RUBBISH at helping establish warranty status
Feedback for the HPSC should be made there:http://www8.hp.com/us/en/contact-hp/contact.html
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