Re: Array Accelerator Battery has Failed
waaronb wrote:The server I'm having this problem with (a new DL380p Gen8) got rebooted yesterday for some maintenance, and the battery warning went away. I guess I'll see what happens when it's been 24...
View ArticleRe: ESXi 5.0 Hardware Status shown as Warning - but no all Disks and SA...
Hi @ all. I've run into the same issue after a firmware upgrade to HP_SPP_2014.02 on ML350 Gen8 server (HP customized ESXi 5.1 b1312873). The problem is solved after installing of...
View ArticleRe: Applying Offline Firmware without HP SUM or Firmware DVD ?
Thanks Torsten I've been trying to go down the LiveCD route for some time now, but just can't get the firmware update to run, probably as I haven't got some pre-reqs somewhere... If I use the Tiny Core...
View ArticleRe: Firmware Update issue
I can't find a solution and am spending too much time on it, so have decommisioned the on bard NICs and purchased a NIC Card to go in that machine. Hopefully this will work and bring it back online....
View ArticleRe: Applying Offline Firmware without HP SUM or Firmware DVD ?
Hard to tell without any test equipment. Maybe I would start with the original SPP and remove everything in hp/swpackages - this will reduce the size by ~ 2.7GB. Most of the other stuff you don't need...
View ArticleRe: Applying Offline Firmware without HP SUM or Firmware DVD ?
I'm going to give that another go now Torsten...On my previous attempts the server would just hang during the boot, so I'm guessing I removed a bit too much from the /hp/swpackages directory...
View ArticleRe: Applying Offline Firmware without HP SUM or Firmware DVD ?
Downlaod the latest HP Scripting Toolkit for Linux. It contains a boot kernel (SLES based) that has all the HP drivers in the initrd image. It contains a script to make a bootable USB key that you...
View ArticleControlling which IP to send SNMP traps from
We have a multi-homed server, and one of the NICs has multiple IPs on it.Server is running Windows Server 2012 We need to have just SNMP traps sent from the second IP address. I saw a similar article...
View ArticleRe: SMTP RAID Monitoring
Thanks a lot from the support pack i can download packagesfor the Proliant DL360 G7 all went well, i haven't configured the SMTP alerts yet but for the DL185 G5, i've got some problems...
View ArticleRe: Controlling which IP to send SNMP traps from
An alternative option...is there a way in HP SIM to accept SNMP traps from a system not listed? I don't want to do the polling on 1 IP address. There is an issue with certain ICMP IDs causing...
View ArticleRe: cpqlocfg.exe issues
Apparently it is an anomoly as I do not see any replies. I'm guessing it is due to amount of data being processed. With that said, I will be clearing all the IML logs. Question, is the IML log the...
View ArticleHP NC550SFP RSS, RDMA & SMB Multipath support
Hello, Can anyone tell me if the NC550SFP 10gb card supports RSS and RDMA for SMB 3.0 multichannel support? Or if not, how to find out? Not listed on the specs. Thanks
View ArticleRe: Intelligent Provisioning 1.60 breaks 2008 R2 install (will not accept...
You saved me from pulling all my hair out. What's left of it, that is. Downgrading to 1.5 helped. Thank you,
View Articleml310e gen8 - How do I use SATA Port 6 as the boot drive with the hot-swap...
I have a Proliant ML310e Gen8 server which I plan to use as a fileserver with ZFS. For ZFS purposes the hot-swap cage is set to AHCI mode instead of RAID. My OS drive is installed on the spare...
View ArticleML350 G5 server goes down randomly
Starting this week, our ML350 G5 server running Win2k3 has started to fail, it goes down several times a day now. What happens is the fans stop and the server goes down. Both the external LEDs on the...
View ArticleRe: ml310e gen8 - How do I use SATA Port 6 as the boot drive with the...
Not sure if this works on the B120i, but it works with other smart arrays ... Set the controller to RAID mode (create a RAID0 per drive for your purposes), go into ACU and set the boot drive.
View ArticleRe: ml310e gen8 - How do I use SATA Port 6 as the boot drive with the...
Thanks for the suggestion Torsten, I'll try it next time I can offline the server. After making the change I assume I could switch back to AHCI?It occurred to me that as a workaround I could also load...
View ArticleRe: ml310e gen8 - How do I use SATA Port 6 as the boot drive with the...
I would try this with 1 or 2 new disks, I assume switching to RAID may corrupt the data on the disks ...
View ArticleRe: Can I suppress battery failed messages on servers with Drive Arrays?
Hi, If you are running a server with Raid0 or Raid0+1, I don't think it would matter. You cannot remove the cache module as the SA controller needs memory to function. If you are speaking about the...
View ArticleRe: Can I suppress battery failed messages on servers with Drive Arrays?
Yeah, I *think* if you just unplug the battery then set the cache to 100% read, it will just treat the array controller as a regular read-only setup.I don't know if they still do, but HP used to sell...
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