Doing so allows the vSphere client to display Smart Array controller status.
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Since you're using ESXi, did you install the HP-specific version of ESXi? The HP build adds array and disk monitoring to the base package. I probably haven't encountered this issue because most of the HP ProLiant G5 servers I've deployed used small-form-factor disks, so I didn't reach the capacities you're working with.
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The easiest wasy to accomplish this for your setup would be to download the HP Firmware DVD or the Service Pack for ProLiant DVD. So in general, upgrading firmware is something you should do regardless of this issue. Looking at the firmware revision history for that controller, there are substantial changes to functionality and feature sets between firmware revisions. One of the critical items involved in working with HP equipment is managing and maintaining firmware. You're referring to a Smart Array P400 controller, which would place your D元60 model as a G5 unit. RAID controller firmware is an most important item. So there are a few issues to look at here. I'm going to blow out the RAID config and then create 1.5TB logical drives. You have to check "don't check drive sizes" in advanced mode, otherwise it will yell at you for have a smaller drive.įor some reason my PCI card wouldn't boot on my HP server, so I hooked the drive up to another desktop I had, booted to VMWare, and copied the vmdk's to another drive. I then used Clonezilla to image the current partitions to my new external drive. I purchased an eSata 2 TB external drive and a PCI eSata card for my server. So after much gnashing of teeth, it was fairly simple to solve. I booted to GParted and the 1.8TB partition shows up, but it shows as unknown. I've rescanned multiple times to no avail: the Datastore doesn't show up. Now after booting back to ESXi, the server boots, but lists no available persistent storage. I added two more 1 TB drives and using the SmartStart ACU, added the drives and expanded the logical disk. I'm using VMWare ESXi 5 and had a 2 TB RAID 5 setup on an HP D元60 with a P400i RAID card.
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