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HP P440AR version 7.0 with Samsung 870 1TB drives - RAID6 esxi 8.02
I have a ProLiant ML350 Gen9 with P440Ar Raid controler, on which i added 6 Samsung 870PRO 1TB drives and put them into RAID 6 configuration with additional SSD drive with esxi 8.02
Everything went ...
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Netapp Storage to HP Nimble cloud
We have a working Netapp Setup with FAS2720 9.7P9 Version connected to Fujitsu ESXi (VMWare 5.5). With multiple VMs running on 3 ESXi Systems but they are residing entirely on Netapp Storage.
We are ...
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ESXi command to check power supply status?
I need to check the power suppliers status of an HP ProLiant DL380 by ESXi to create/get a note that informs me if one dies.
By using the command esxcli hardware ipmi sdr list i'm getting pretty close ...
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Installing ESXi 6.7 on HP Gen9 Warning vmFileSystem: Slow refresh failed. Cannot open volume: vmfs/volumes/
Durin installation of ESXi 6.7 (HPE Custom ISO) on HPE Gen9 server I see this message:
And it is stuck on this "Scanning System":
Gathering additional system information. This may take a ...
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Newly added drives do not appear in the raid array list (hp server and ESXi)
I recently added two physical drives into my hp server (port 2). I also add them to the raid array list, but they don't appear in it:
and:
How can I add Disk 5,6 to the raid5 array list?
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DL180 G6 server suddenly loses access to SSD datastore on ESXi 6.0 [closed]
I've currently got a HP ProLiant DL180 G6 server. It originally came with a Smart Array P410i raid card, which I used to create a bunch of RAID0 disks (one SSD for my ESXi datastore and a couple of ...
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DL380 G9 - ESXi v6 u3 showing SCSI disk as normal,degraded
We have installed Vmware ESXi v6 u3 on a DL380 G9. We did the raid in the Intelligent provisioning during system startup, after which we did the Install. But all the volumes created are showing up as ...
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Remove two physical drives from raid 5 array (4 disks)
I'm using a G6 hp server with 4 physical drives and p410 raid controller. I set up raid5 array with 3 physical drives,but one of them has been failed and becouse of this, I am in the Interim recovery ...
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Trouble creating a data store on ESXI 6.5 u1
I have a RAID 6 array (HP p822 controller v8.0 firmware) that I just added to my ESXI server. When I went to create a new data store I noticed it showed 2.92gb free of 10.92tb. This is a new array, ...
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Configuring RAID HP P822 Smart Array controller in Supermicro system, possible?
I have a very strange mashup of parts that I am trying to get working for a project. Due to a windfall from a client who was getting rid of hardware, I became the proud owner of a HP P822 controller.
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Server reboots at booting linux based softwares
We have a dl380p gen8 hp server and it was just working fine till one reboot that we don't know what happened but as a result our ESXi os does not boot anymore, it just goes to reboot after loading ...
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HP Smart Array P400 Write Cache not Enabling on VMware ESXi 5.5 Running on ProLiant DL380 G6
I am trying to get write caching enabled on a Smart Array P400 even though there is no battery backup. We have a large building wide UPS backed up by a generator so the likelihood of loosing power is ...
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Is it possible to trunk ESXi 6.5 with HP 1820-48G?
I am trying to setup trunk between those two (ESXi 6.5 with HP 1820-48G) and nothing seems to work.
I have read vmware kb article (can not insert link) and no luck.
These are my setup options, brute ...
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Daisy Chain HP D2600 HDD Array
So I've searched to see if anyone's tried this and it doesn't seem like they have (if they have they haven't documented it)
Setup
2 X HP ProLiant DL380 Gen 9 that share a HP MSA2040 SAS Dual ...
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ILO Update : Which version should we select?
We have a HP ProLiant DL160 Gen 8 server, with VMWare ESXi 6.0.0 actually installed on it.
We started to update it to VMWare ESXi 6.5, but the upgrade stopped, stating that we need to update the HP ...
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diagnose purple screen of death ESX 6.0
Our server keeps crashing with a purple screen of death. I have tried interpreting the crash dumps but to no avail. I have an HP Proliant DL360 G7 with ESXi 6.0 running on it and I have other ...
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Why all LEDs of my HP Proliant DL380 G8 server flashing amber? [closed]
I'm using a HP Proliant DL380 G8 Server for 2 years with a VMWare ESXi 6u2 OS installed on it. Recently I have noticed that all systems insight display LEDs are flashing amber (screenshot in this link)...
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HP Storageworks MSA60
I have an HP DL380 G5 with ESXi installed on a local RAID (146x3 RAID1) and it has attached an MSA60 storage. The server has issues so I will replace it with an identical machine. I know I will ...
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VmWare / HP EVA: How many LUNs with one DiskGroup
I know that similar questions have been asked already, but I feel that they were on a rather theoretical level and are not quite applicable to my case.
We're operating 3 ESXi 6.0 hosts, all backed by ...
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not responding HP dl360 g7, Blinking RED health, Green Power, 1 Fan degraded
I recently toke over a role and handled this server dl360 g7. It has 2 power supplies all are ok. 1 degraded fan and others are all green. Installed with VMware esxi and and 3 vm installed. The server ...
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DL180 G6 - ESXI 6.0 - P410 - Lost access to volume Issue
We have a DL180 G6 Server with a P410 RAID Card. The server has the following three RAID arrays.
4x2TB - RAID 10
4x2TB - RAID 10
2x2TB - RAID 1
2x2TB HD's are configured as hot spares ...
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Can you connect a SAN directly to a HBA with Fibre Channel?
I am in the process of sourcing our company's first SAN as we have the need for high availability/shared storage. I have noticed fibre channel switches are extremely expensive, and for redundancy we ...
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Incorrect memory hp ProLiant ML110 G6 in VMWare
My ESXi server is report that it only has 8GB where as it actually has 16GB. I do not have physical access to the machine. How could I go about verifying this information? I am currently using the ...
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HP ProLiant ML350p Gen8 server keeps crashing (full speed fans)
I have a problem with a HP ProLiant ML350p Gen8 server. Most of the time it runs fine, but after several weeks of uptime, the server crashes out of the blue. This happened about 5 times now. When it ...
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Extremely slow disk speeds Centos 6
Setup looks as follows:
HP Proliant DL380 G7
6 x 3TB Sata drives (surveillance level) configured with hardware RAID 1+0 with the SATA controller on board. Model is Seagate SV35
192GB RAM
VMware ...
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How to find out driver and firmware version of my ESXi Fiber Channel HBA? (via SSH)
I have an ESXi 5.5 Server (HP DL380 G7).
How can i figure out the driver and firmeware version of my HP-QLOGIC Fiber Channel HBA via SSH?
I think i am too stupid... :-/
Thx for help.
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ESXi very slow with WD reds
I have a small company and we offer tech support to small companies. I've been using the HP Gen8 MicroServer in most of them as a replacement of homebuilt computers for some time.
Sometimes customers ...
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Ubuntu dd test becoming slow over time under ESXi 5.5
I have a HP DL320e running the custom HP build of ESXi 5.5.Guest is a Ubuntu server 14.04 with vmware tools installed. Write speeds to the two SSDs in RAID1 (disk added with thin provision) are great (...
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No LUN available to extend datastore
I have a HP DL380G5 with ESXi 5.5 and x4 146GB Sata disks in a RAID5 array. I have added one more disk to the server exactly as the other ones and, using SmartStart CD I managed to add the disk to the ...
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HP ProLiant disk failure, proceed or do not proceed
We have a HP proliant DL385 G7 server that’s a vmware ESXI host with a failed hard drive – the drive is a HP SAS-MDL, 7.2 K, 2TB. When we boot the server we get the attached message and we are not ...
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HP DL360 G5 and using 3.5" sata drives OR USB [closed]
I have a HP DL360 G5 (1x 4core CPU, 4gb Ram, 4x 36gb SAS Hdd's) I am looking for some advice.
This server is just for home use to run some VM's with ESXI 5.1 for my home network and some testing of ...
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esxi passthrough storage adapter
I run ESXi 5.1.0 (HP version) on HP ProLiant ML310e G8 v2.
There are 2 Storage Adapters:
Smart Array P222
Dynamic Smart Array B120i
Storage Adapters are visible in ESXi/Storage Adapters.
Storage ...
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VMware ESXi error upon boot "Relocating modules and starting up the kernel"
Coming back from a 4-day weekend, I noticed the A/C had been turned off for the duration of the long weekend and the heat was around 80-82 degrees. The HP ProLiant DL185G5 was running but the system ...
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ESXi PCI passthrough on HP DL360 G5
I am running ESXi 5.5 on a DL360 G5 and the option for PCI passthrough shows 'Host does not support passthrough configuration'.
I have enabled VT in the BIOS under processor options and I have x64 ...
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Reusing a drive from an array
I read the question here Reusing Raid 5 Drive? but I'm not sure it applies 100% to my situation.
What is the standard practice when removing a drive from an array to use as a spare for another array? ...
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How can I fix Purple Screen of Death for ESX 5.5?
I have a ESX 5.5 installed on my HP Proliant DL 180 G6 with a configuration of
8X Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5540 @ 2.53GHz, 24 Gb RAM.
Recently the server has crashed four times, showing the Purple ...
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Adding a local HDD to an ESXi host
I am trying to add a 4TB HDD to my ESXi server, but I can't find out how. I've tried following a few tutorials on the internet, which say to go to the configuration tab, storage, rescan the datastores ...
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Adding additional disks to HP P2000 SAS Storage
We have a 12 bay HP P2000 SAS Enclosure with 6 drives on RAID 5 installed. The drives are configured as 2 separate DataStores for a VMWare vSphere ESXi setup.
Now we want to add:
6 additional ...
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Very slow disk performance on HP P410 with RAID1+0
I have HP Microserver N54L, until recently i have used integrated software raid without problems.
I have 2x WD Black and 2x WD Red (non-pro) disks for my raid array. I also have SSD directly on the ...
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Guest VMs Unknown after power outage on HP VSA
A remote office had a power outage tonight. When the power came up, both the Physical DC and the Physical ESXi Server came up. Connecting to vSphere, I can see the HP-VSA has started, but the other ...
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Identifying what caused a server reboot
I have an HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8 that is running VMWare ESXi 5.5. It has been rebooting itself at seemingly random intervals for the past 24 hours. There is only a single VM running, and even if I ...
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HP ProLiant Gen8 BIOS settings for VMware ESXi
What BIOS settings should be set on a HP BL460c Gen8 server so that ESXi 5.5 runs correctly?
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Upgrade the firmware of SAS HDD on DL380 G5?
I have a DL380 G5 server with 146GB single-port HDD (DG146ABAB). The HP Storage Array P400 controller is saying that firmware should be upgraded on these drives. I am running VMware ESX 5.1 (no ...
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Store VMs on the same Stick as ESXi
I've a HP N54L Microserver with an ESXi, which runs from the 16GB USB Stick.
In vSphere client I can't see any volumes, where I can store my VMs. And I think that ESXi never needs 16 GB to work.
Is ...
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ESXi v5.5 is having random crashes
HW:
Type: HP Proliant ML350 G5
RAM 22GB
CPU 1 x Intel Xenon E5405 2.00GHz
OP:
ESXi 5.5 just updated from 5.1 to try and fix the crashes occurring on ESXi 5.1 on same hardware.
I'm trying to find ...
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Unable to create datastore extent on VMware ESXi 5.5 - HP Smart Array P800
I have a HP P800 array controller connected to a HP MSA60 with 12x 1TB SATA drives installed. I provisioned a single array with 1 spare in ACU. I have followed this KB and created 4x 1.9TB logical ...
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How to check HP Smart array status on ESXi 5
I've been reading How to run the HP Online ACU CLI for Linux in ESXi 4.x & trying to figure out a way to see the RAID status of the server without having to restart it.
This is because, I've ...
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Continuous I/O latency error on ESXi 5.0
Recently I posted a question on HP Proliant DL180 G6 - Smart Array P410, bay 11 error which the answers helped me to dig through. And today that I just noticed under my vSphere log which gives a ...
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HP Proliant DL180 G6 - Smart Array P410, bay 11 error
I've been trying to search over ther internet for a solution to fix this. I'm the new IT person for my organization and our previous IT have not kept any records on certain things. I do understand, ...
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HP Smart Array P420i Array Management in ESXi 5.5
I have a HP DL380p Gen8 server with ESXi 5.5 running on it and HP Smart Array P420i. I've installed 4 new hard disks on it and want to put them in a RAID 6 array (Although RAID 10 would be OK too).
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