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HP Raid Controller p420i 18TB disk support on DL380 Gen8?
I have some 18TB Seagate Disks on a DL380 Gen8 HP server with p420i raid controller, with 2GB cache module.
I have created a RAID5 with 16TB disks but with 18TB disks, all disks are recognized but ...
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How to identify which disk is failing in a HP ProLiant RAID controller?
I have a hard time identifying which drive is failing in my HP ProLiant DL360p Gen8. It has the following RAID controller: Smart Array P420i. I see tons of errors in dmesg:
[40425140.998750] sd 0:1:0:...
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HP G8 server and disks [closed]
I'm looking to get an HP G8 server to create a ZFS based file server solution.
One of the things that I read is that starting with G8, HP Changed their caddies, and it now performs disks check to ...
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RAID 0 - disk failure probability - need help to verifying my experience [closed]
I have HP DL380 G7, with 8x300GB disks. The disks are not HP genuine, they are OEM.
I configured RAID 0 for all disks, as i need speed and i have backup plans.
within 1 month:
1 Disk threw SMART ...
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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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Can "enterprise" drives be safely replaced by near/midline in some situations?
When specifying servers, like (I would assume) many engineers who aren't experts in storage, I'll generally play it safe (and perhaps be a slave to marketing) by standardising on a minimum of 10k SAS ...
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Possible to use internal LSI controllers in HP hosts?
Right now I have a HP ProLiant DL360p Gen8 with two SATA disks in the disk bays. These are the OS disks. I choose SATA disks to bypass the internal raid controller, so ZFS could do the raid.
I now ...
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Steady red light on 2 HP SAS drives in RAID 1
I have a HP ProLiant web server with two HP 300GB SAS SFF 2.5 inch drives (Model: HP 507127-B21). Both drives have a solid red light, however there is no indication within the management software that ...
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When to use hot-spare?
On my newly purchased HP MDS600 with 70x 4TB Nearline SAS disks, I now need to configure the disks, and I want raidz2, so the raid sizes follows 2^n+2. The options I therefore have are
7 raid sets ...
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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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how to merge 2 controller (6 Bays each) in HP DL370 G6
I am having a server DL370 G6 as seen in the image below, and I want to install Windows Server 2008 E. we are using it for camera recording. Each slot has 6 2 TB hard disks.
I want to merge both as ...
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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 identify faulty drive on a HP DL160 G6 - P410 Smart Array
I have a HP DL160 G6 Server with 4 HP SAS drive, firmware have been updated to the latest on the HD and the Smart Array...
The issue im having is that one of the disk have a steady amber light turned ...
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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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Can I mix drive types in an HP server?
I currently have the following setup:
HP DL380 G4 Server
6 x 73GB, Ultra160, 10k, SCSI 80 Pin Drives
Smart Array 6i Controller
RAID 5
One of the drives is failing and needs to be replaced. I have ...
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Extend Raid5 with a new HD (HP DL380 G3)
Because one of our customers is running out of disk space, I need to extend his Raid5 with one more disk.
At the moment the raid5 contains 3x72gb harddisk. The harddisk i want to add is exactly the ...
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