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"Smart Array" is the name used by Hewlett-Packard's line of enterprise-grade RAID controllers.

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Smart Array P400 controller - how to remove failed spare from config

I hope you can help me out of a puzzle. I have a Smart Array P400 controller which has 5 drives configured in RAID 5 and one extra drive as a hot spare. Two of the main drives were showing some signs of failure so I bought two new drives. Now this…
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raid scrub for hp dynamic smart arrays

I'm new to hp servers. we own an hp dl160 gen9 with soft raid. it uses the b140i controller to manage 4 LFF in raid 5. My question is: how can I scrub the raid? I've installed the hpssacli utils: while they allow me to have a report on the…
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Samsung SM863 SSD disk in HP ProLiant DL380 Gen9

Does anyone have any experience on using Samsung SSD disks in HP servers? I am planning to buy the following: ProLiant DL380 Gen9 Xeon E5-2620 v3 (Disk controller: Smart Array P440ar with 2GB FBWC) 4x SAMSUNG SSD ENTERPRISE SM863 960GB…
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HP Smart Array P410i Logical Volume failed, how to rebuild it without lossing data

I have a failed logical volume on an HP Smart Array P401i with vmWare installed. Is there any way to rebuild the logical volume without losing precious data? logical volume failed on vmware
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HP Smart Array - create a logical drive with a physical drive that contains data

I'm using a server with a HP Smart Array controller. I have a hard drive that I wrote data to. I would like to install that disk in the server and use it. Is it possible to create a logical drive from that physical drive? I see that all data is…
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Can HP SmartArray P800 be used with 3Tb drives?

I can get a good deal on a used card, but wish to use larger disks with it. The card has LSI's SAS1078 chip. Can it use 3Tb drives to their full potential, or will they appear smaller? Searching online I get somewhat conflicting information. If it…
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Smart Array P812 External ports don't detect backplane with SAS HDDs

I've found some articles that P812 do not see SATA drives via external ports after updating firmware 5.14 and above. But I can't find any mentions about restrictions with SAS hard drives. (I have two P812 controllers,1-st with firmware ver 5.70 and…
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P212 Smart array not configured

First of all thanks for all your help. I have purchased a used HP DL380 G7 for my home. This is my first server installation and all going well for the raid configuration P410I and ESXI installation. I have purchased a D2600 with a P212 raid with…
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