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HP ProLiant BL460c G1/G5 is a very stable and reliable server platform widely employed by the dedicated servers providers. It has built-in HP Smart Array Controller that can be used under Linux by means of HP Smart Array CCISS driver.It provides the kernel modules cciss.ko. The HP Array Configuration Utility is a web-based application that helps you configure HP ProLiant SMART-2 Array Controllers, HP ProLiant Smart Array Controllers, HP ProLiant Integrated Smart Array Controllers, and HP ProLiant StorageWorks RAID Array. HPACUCLI stands for HP Array Configuration Utility CLI. Hpacucli is used to create, delete and repair the logical and physical drives on the smart array controllers in HP servers. To use hpacucli, download and install the latest version of hpacucli rpm from the HP website on your Linux server. HP Smart Array RAID controllers used the Linux cciss kernel driver for many years (~2001-2010). The corresponding block device was /dev/cciss/cXdY, where X is the controller, enumerated from 0 on, and Y the logical drive number.
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At HP's Certification Matrices it is mentioned that there are no Smart Array B120i RAID controller drivers. It is suggested to use the controller in AHCI mode, use software RAID instead and forget about the HP maintenance tools. On the other hand
- the HP ISS Linux Team provides the hpvsa propriety driver from HP;
- the Software Delivery Repository provides the Management Component Pack for ProLiant, MCP.
Useful AskUbuntu questions are here and here; excellent setup description is available at Neowin.However, there is no indication that anybody ever managed to use the hpvsa drivers and MCP outside of HP.
Has anyone installed the drivers and successfully used the tools? I was trying to, but goofed it. It would help to see how the RAID is recognized by the OS. At which point is the array detected? What's the kernel message? What does
hdparm -i
say? smartctl --all
?Details on my failure:
I installed Ubuntu Server 14.04.2 LTS on the server's microSD card without problems (traditional way using external USB optical drive / USB stick since the intelligent provisioning thing did not provide the option to install Ubuntu) and installed parts of the MCP (since some packages contain unmet dependencies).
hplog -t
already provides some output:Redhat Linux Installation Guide
Would have been great if this information would have been available to
sensorsd
. Other hplog options produce plausible output as well. So does hpasmcli -s 'show dimm'
.I am not sure in which mode the HDDs are used. BIOS configuration was set to RAID mode (RAID 1 volume for slots #3 and #4), but the OS provides access (
fdisk
, smartctl
) to all individual disks -- which indicates that there is no RAID array? The logical volume was set up using the built-in Intelligent Provisioning system. The hpvsa drivers require kernel 3.13.0-32 while Ubuntu came with 3.16.0-45. I installed that kernel as well and was able to load the hpvsa module. Starting hpssa -local
the system reported that no array controller was detected. Huh?Community♦
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I've installed 14.04.2 following the steps from the HP guide located at:
Hp Smart Array Linux Installation Introduction Letter
However, the HP logical volumes where not visile during the install process.
After installation, I've updated hpdsa and installed the Storage Administration (hpssacli) utility from here:
However, the hpssacli utility output is as follows:
Trying to get some info on the module:
lsmod lists the module:
I'll keep digging.
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