HP Smart Array E500 Controller User Guide

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Contents

Hardware features........................................................................................................................ 5

Main components on the board .................................................................................................................. 5

Other features........................................................................................................................................... 5

Overview of the installation procedure ............................................................................................ 7

Installing the controller in an unconfigured server .......................................................................................... 7

Installing the controller in a previously-configured server................................................................................. 7

Installing the controller hardware.................................................................................................... 9

Preparing the server................................................................................................................................... 9

Installing the controller board...................................................................................................................... 9

Connecting external storage ..................................................................................................................... 10

Updating the firmware ................................................................................................................ 11

Methods for updating the firmware............................................................................................................ 11

Configuring an array .................................................................................................................. 12

Utilities available for configuring an array.................................................................................................. 12

Setting the boot controller and controller order............................................................................... 13

Setting a controller as the boot controller.................................................................................................... 13

Setting the controller order ....................................................................................................................... 13

Installing device drivers and Management Agents .......................................................................... 15

Installing device drivers............................................................................................................................ 15

Installing Management Agents .................................................................................................................. 15

Upgrading or replacing controller options ..................................................................................... 16

Installing or replacing a battery................................................................................................................. 16

Installing a battery......................................................................................................................... 16

Replacing a battery ....................................................................................................................... 17

Replacing the cache ................................................................................................................................ 18

Replacing, moving, or adding hard drives..................................................................................... 20

Identifying the status of a hard drive .......................................................................................................... 20

Recognizing hard drive failure .................................................................................................................. 21

Effects of a hard drive failure .......................................................................................................... 22

Compromised fault tolerance .......................................................................................................... 22

Recovering from compromised fault tolerance.................................................................................... 22

Replacing hard drives.............................................................................................................................. 23

Hard drive replacement guidelines .................................................................................................. 23

Automatic data recovery (rebuild).................................................................................................... 24

Upgrading hard drive capacity ....................................................................................................... 26

Moving drives and arrays ........................................................................................................................ 26

Adding drives......................................................................................................................................... 27

Diagnosing array problems.......................................................................................................... 28

Controller board runtime LEDs................................................................................................................... 28

Battery pack LEDs.................................................................................................................................... 29