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1. HP ProLiant Offline Array Configuration Utility. By downloading, you agree to the terms and conditions of the Hewlett Packard Enterprise Software License Agreement. Note: Some software requires a valid warranty, current Hewlett Packard Enterprise support contract, or a license fee.
2. HP ProLiant Firmware Maintenance CD. Click Install Firmware. The HP Smart Update Manager is initiated. Smart Array, and NIC firmware. If HP Smart Update.
3. I think the Ubuntu installer mis-detects the Smart Array Controller as something else so you have to download the correct driver for the P400 from HP and tell it to use that during installation.
4. 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.

I’ve just installed a perfect-running HP Smart Array P212 in my server. It comes with 2.72 firmware version.

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. Installing HP Array Configuration Utility (HP ACU) on Ubuntu. Install the HP Linux Repository. Smart Array P410 in Slot 3.

My server runs vmware ESXi 6.0 and, after perform a firmware update to 6.64 version as explained in this link.

I perform the installation process correctly, bur after it the system asks to perform a reboot. I went out from ESXi shell and reboot the server.

But after it the system shows the message:

HP Smart Array P212 Controller Initializing.. +x+ (the rotation mark)

And then it halts. Doesn’t proceed with the booting process.

I am disappointed, because we have some important data in the RAID disks.

I checked if it has the same behaviour with and without disks attached to the board, and it doesn`t change anything.

The status LED's don't show any error, with the heartbeat running ok and low CPU load (<25%).

When I remove the board from the server, it performs the boot normally.

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Please someone help me what can I do to bring the RAID array back without losing data.

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Please power the server off - Disconnect power. Then power it back on.

See if the system boots.

Also check your system's ILO/IML logs from the ILO interface.

Also, the HP Smart Array P212 isn't a standard issue RAID controller in most systems. Are you using an HP server? Please clarify.

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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:

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?

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I've installed 14.04.2 following the steps from the HP guide located at:

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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:

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lsmod lists the module:

How to install apache with php on linux. I'll keep digging.

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