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HP ProLiant 380G8 HDD tray staus blinks
I upgraded my RAID6 with two additional drives. Now have six 8TB drives in it. After adding, I modified arraysize to max (SSACLI installed on PVE), restarted and tuned the partition (parted, ext4).
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Email alerts about RAID hard disk errors from HPE ProLiant server with iLO
I am looking for a way to get email alerts about possible RAID hard disk failures from the HPE ProLiant server running the free version of ESXi.
Has anyone used iLO successfully for this with the ...
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On a Proliant DL380 G7, how can I identify which drive in the RAID is making a clicking sound?
I have 8 drives in the Proliant G7, and when under disk load there is a clicking sound from one of them.
There are NO SMART ERROR MESSAGES.
It is running ESXi, which shows warnings about i/o latency ...
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"Hot plug replacement too small" although disk is of same size
On one of our servers, a disk failed that was part of a RAID 5. I replaced that disk with one of identical size. However, the RAID does not start to rebuild. If I check the status of the disk with ...
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HP Proliant DL180 G6 HHD failure and replacement
One of the HP HDD in our HP Proliant DL180 G6 had failed, I've replaced the failed HDD with a standard 1 TB Seagate HDD, the Array controller won't start rebuilding on a Seagate, I had the new Seagate ...
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HP ProLiant ML350 Gen9 - Replace SFF cage with LFF cage to use specific HDD
Recently, I was given the task to replace the SFF HDDs in a HP ProLiant ML350 Gen9 (PN: 776973-425, tower version), and use LFF HDDs instead.
The HDDs are 4TB SAS 7.2K LFF SC DS HDD (PN: 872487-B21).
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HP Proliant DL360p gen8 Unrecoverable Media Error. Amber lights on 3 disks
I have HP Proliant DL360p gen8. 4 disk on RAID 5, 3 of them have amber light on them. I did chkdsk on my virtual machines none reported any error.
Am i able to fix it without buying and replacing ...
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SAS HDD won't reinstall, keeps flickering and shows red light
I have an HP ProLiant SE316M1R2 server. I had 3 hard disks in the Smart Array P410i (they're Fujitsu, two RAID 0 in bay 1 and one RAID 0 in bay 2), so I uninstalled one of them because I was testing ...
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HP ProLiant DL380 G7 LFF - Is every SAS HDD compatible?
I am just starting to get into server hardware, so please bear with me.
I bought a HP ProLiant DL380 Generation 7 with a LFF drive cage and I do not know which SAS drives are actually compatible. ...
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HP G8 trays keep on showing disk activity when there should be none
I have a DL380 G8 with a P420i raid controller. 2 RAID1 logical drives have been setup - one containing the OS (CentOS7) and one made of a single almost empty partition (contains a single tiny text ...
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HP Proliant G8 - mixing external drive bays SFF/LFF
I recently got myself a refurbished DL380pG8 with a 25 SFF bay.
The idea was to put CentOS7 on it and use is as storage device, mixing shared storage, possibly some iSCSI drives for a couple of ...
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Hard drive "Do not remove" indicator on, but all drives reporting ok
We've got a Proliant DL360 Gen 8 with an odd issue. It has four hard drives installed (this type). I believe it's set up as two RAID 1 pairs. This is an ESXi host that I can't easily shut down, and it'...
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HP SmartArray P400i marks a good drive as a failed, what can I do about it?
I have the HP ProLiant DL360 G5 server with the SmartArray P400i RAID controller. The server itself is pretty old, but it still works normally. The only issue is the RAID controller, which marks good ...
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HP ProLiant DL360 G6 RAID rebuild fan noise
I needed to expand the size of the shared drive on my HP ProLiant DL360 G6. I purchased two hard drives, replaced the first one and expected the computer to rebuild the RAID. The fans kicked in to ...
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HP P400 and Sata disk
I have an old HP ML110 server with OEM windows Server license that I have to use for a few more months. Internal raid controller is causing me some problems so I want to buy another hardware ...
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Are HP Gen7 servers compatible with g6 drives?
I have server g7 dl380. I want to check if i can put drives from server g6 and this will work?
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how to do warranty lookup of HPE HDDs?
I have had this problem a lot, and I was wondering if anyone knows the way to do this. WHAT information do I need to get my warranty lookup for HP(E) Harddrives for proliant servers. so. if you go to ...
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What is the power consumption of HP Proliant SAS 15k hard disks?
I have been looking at improving the power footprint of our server architecture and one way to achieve this might be to replace our current 15k SAS HDDs with SSD drives.
However, I have been unable ...
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HP ProLiant Server Drive compatibility
I have a DL360 g7 & a DL380 g8 server in my office, and I'm interested in replacing my g8 drives for newer drives with more storage space.
My question is - are the g8 drives compatible in the g7 ...
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HP ProLiant DL180 Gen9 modding/cabling [closed]
I bought a HP ProLiant DL180 Gen9 server in 12LFF drives configuration. Now I'd like to put two additional 2.5" SATA drives inside the case to serve as system drives.
As there isn't a default spot ...
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HP Hard Drive ABC Slots
Ok so I have a hard drive that went out and a replacement drive was ordered per the same part # from the bad drive. On these driver there are 3 slots with tabs on these drives labeled A B C.
The BAD ...
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Selecting an SSD to act as boot volume in an HP server
A question I recently asked regarding the use of enterprise 10k vs. 7.2k midline SAS disks led to some suggestions that the use of a mirrored pair of SSDs as a boot volume can make sense because:
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What are the various factors that limits disk read and write speeds and on a network? [closed]
How to choose a server which:
has high I/O performance of storage
is highly flexible in terms of
adding more storage
So, basically these servers should act as storage servers for OST in lustre ...
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How to find out raid in linux: cat /sys/block/sda/device/raid_level vs dmraid -s in Redhat?
I am trying to find what raid level and what storage controllers are there in my remote HP server.
I can find out the following details which storage controller, size of the disk, model etc.
But ...
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Does the backplane on an HP server have any impact on the speed of the drives?
I have an HP Proliant DL380 Gen7. The server currently has no drives and is running on the integrated smart array controller. I was looking into replacing the controller with an LSI-9211-8i controller ...
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Difference between 2 hardisks for HP ProLiant server
I have a HP ProLiant server: HP ProLiant DL360e Gen8 Entry
I have:
2 hardisk HP SAS 6 Gb/s 7.2 K 8.9cm HP 1TB HDD
Now I need to buy:
HP SAS 6G 7.2K SFF 6.4cm SC 1TB HDD
to install also ...
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What is the maximum ProLiant DL580 G3 SCSI or SAS drive capacity, and are only HP drives permitted?
I was recently given a free HP ProLiant DL580 G3 configured for SCSI drives from out of a datacenter. I understand that this is an older unit, and reliability may be questionable at best, but in my ...
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HDD LEDs stopped working after exchanged raid controller in HP DL380 G5
I recently went ahead and exchanged the p400 RAID controller in my HP DL380 G5 server with an LSI HBA card (SAS 9207-8i). I did this to get better disk compatibility, and I didn't need RAID ...
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HP Proliant DL360 G6 Maximum Logical Drives
I have an HP Proliant DL360 G6 server with 8 HD bays. Currently I have the first two bays working with ESXi and I'm just running RAID 0 on a single drive. This is not a production machine. It has a ...
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Does this hard disk match with the HP ProLiant ML350 G5?
I've got an offering for the 300 GB SAS 10K 2,5" hard disk. Will this fit in my HP ProLiant ML350 G5 server.
The description in the manual isn't that clear. I'm just don't want to buy something that ...
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Migrate SAS disks from E200i to B320i Smart Array
I have an older HP ML350 G5 series server with 4 SAS 72GB hdds in RAID 0+1. It's down and beyond repair.
So I was wondering would it work if I was just to plug those in newer server with B320i RAID ...
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HP Server Gen9 with Gen8 Caddies/Trays
If I have an Generation 9 (Gen9) server from HP, will I be able to use the Gen8 hard disk caddies/trays?
For example if I get a HP ProLiant DL180 Gen9 will the old Gen8 caddies/trays still be ...
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HP ProLiant ML350 G6 RAID 1 disk compatibility
We are running an HP ProLiant ML350 with a RAID 1 set up on two identical 300GB 6G SAS 10K rpm SFF (2.5-inch) Dual Port Enterprise HDDs and a third acting as a "hot spare" - HP part # HPQ-507127-S21. ...
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HP ProLiant Server HDDs - Buy Spare Parts vs. Retail
sometimes i have to upgrade HP Servers. For example when they get a new "job" to do.
So lets say i need some more HDDs for an DL360 G7 Server. If the Server has an active HP Care Pack, does it matter ...
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100% disk usage Windows server 2008
We have HP Proliant G6 server with 4 1.5Tb SATA disks. 2 RAID 1 arrays and 2 logical drives 1.5Tb.
One day ago I mentioned twith resmon that disk usage is 100% and i\o speed is not more then 4Mb\s
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Is an HP Proliant 350e Gen8 server appropriate for Primevera and Sage applications? [duplicate]
I want to buy a server to accommodate both the Primevera and Sage applications? Would a HP Proliant 350e Gen8 do? Are there any concerns about this platform?
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HP Dl360e Gen8 Not Detecting Hard Drives
I have a new HP Proliant DL360e G8 and it is not detecting the hard drives.
We are using both non-hp, and official hp hard drives from an older server (DL120). Hard drives are 3.5" and they are not ...
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Hard drives indication with controller MegaRAID SAS 9261-8i on HP Proliant DL320e Gen8. Is it possible?
Give me advice, please.
My situation:
There're the server HP ProLiant DL320e Gen8 and MegaRAID SAS 9261-8i RAID Controller.
I installed Controller into server and I reconnected Mini-SAS cord from ...
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How to find a compatible disk for HP server?
How to find a compatible disk for HP server? I own HP ML350 G6 server.
I have found a spare parts list, but since there is no disk of size 300 GB 2.5 10K 6G (originally installed on server) I am ...
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Using a DL380p Gen8 and D2700 Disk Enclosure
We've got a DL380p Gen8 with 16 slots for 2.5" drives, and we're running out of storage space.
So what I'm looking at doing is replacing all of the current drives (some are 300GB, some 600) with ...
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Consumer HDDs in a HP ProLiant DL180 G6?
Model: HP ProLiant DL180 507168-B21
Will a ProLiant DL180 G6 work with a single 1TB consumer hard drive in a caddy?
Yes, I know I should use enterprise HDDs but we have a limited budget, and this ...
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Will adding HD's to a Proliant 350e server invalidate the warranty
We are looking at getting a new file server in the office.
When looking at HD's the ones that HP sell are twice or more than just buying a drive and getting a caddy to hold it in the server. When we ...
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HP Proliant ML350 G5 E200i Hard Disk get amber light after firmware Update
I have an HP ProLiant ML 350 G5 with E200i Controler running Windows Server 2008 R2 x64
It have four disks drives models DG072A9BB7 firmware HPD0, with two logical drives C: and D: booth with raid 1-...
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Proliant server will not accept new hard disks in RAID 1+0?
I have a HP ProLiant DL380 G5, I have two logical drives configured with RAID. I have one logical drive RAID 1+0 with two 72 gb 10k sas 1 port spare no 376597-001.
I had one hard disk fail and ...
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Smart Array P400i Physical Drive failed after being replaced
We have replaced the bad drives in a few HP systems (ProLiant DL360 G5), but they continue to show failed. The drives are part of RAID, and I think this might be why they are appearing as failed. The ...
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Are new HP Gen8 servers compatible with g7 drives?
Are HP Gen8 servers (namely DL380 Gen8 with 2.5" HP disks) compatible with 2.5" harddrives from G5-G7 servers? I mean original HP disks in HP caddies not plain SAS/SATA drives.
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Why am I getting "Input/output error during read on /dev/sda" during a CentOS text-mode installation?
I'm trying to install CentOS 5.7 on an HP Proliant DL380 G5 (with an HP P400 Smart Array RAID controller) and am getting the following error during the text mode installer:
ERROR: pdc: reading /dev/...
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HP Proliant DL180 G5 server treats 3-TB SATA disks as 750-GB ones
I have this HP Proliant DL180 G5 server, running with the embedded RAID controller (no Smart Array); with this configuration, it only supports 4 SATA disks. Fine.
The server has 2 250-GB SATA disks; ...
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HP ProLiant ML110 G7 Questions
Have an HP ProLiant ML110 G7 running Server 2008 R2.
Question #1:
This server takes FOREVER to boot. I think it's because of "HP Power and Thermal Calibration" it does at the beginning of every ...
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Predictive failure on hot swappable drive
on a HP PROLIANT ML350 G5 server, one of 3 physical hot swappable drives in a Smart Array has a status of Predictive Failure and the amber light is flashing. Each drive is 146GB. In HP System ...
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