HP Smart Array B140i User Manual

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Contents
Overview ................................................................................................................................................... 5
About the HPE Dynamic Smart Array B140i RAID controller ................................................................................... 5
Features ................................................................................................................................................................... 5
Enabling and configuring the controller..................................................................................................... 6
Boot mode ................................................................................................................................................................ 6
Enabling the controller .............................................................................................................................................. 6
Configuring an array ................................................................................................................................................. 7
Setting the controller read cache .............................................................................................................................. 7
Installing device drivers............................................................................................................................. 8
Hewlett Packard Enterprise product QuickSpecs ..................................................................................................... 8
Device drivers overview ........................................................................................................................................... 8
VMware ESX operating systems .............................................................................................................................. 8
Installing the device driver as an update ....................................................................................................... 8
Installing Linux device drivers .................................................................................................................................. 9
Installing device drivers (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6) ................................................................................... 9
Installing device drivers (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7) ................................................................................. 10
Installing device drivers (SUSE Enterprise Linux) ....................................................................................... 11
Installing device drivers (Ubuntu Server Linux) ........................................................................................... 12
Windows operating systems ................................................................................................................................... 13
Manually injecting the device driver during OS installation ......................................................................... 13
Replacing, moving, or adding hard drives ............................................................................................... 15
Drive LEDs ............................................................................................................................................................. 15
Recognizing drive failure ........................................................................................................................................ 15
Effects of a hard drive failure ....................................................................................................................... 16
Compromised fault tolerance....................................................................................................................... 16
Recovering from compromised fault tolerance ............................................................................................ 17
Replacing hard drives ............................................................................................................................................. 17
Guidelines.................................................................................................................................................... 17
Data recovery (rebuild) ........................................................................................................................................... 18
Time required for a rebuild .......................................................................................................................... 18
Abnormal termination of a rebuild................................................................................................................ 19
Moving hard drives and arrays ............................................................................................................................... 20
Adding drives .......................................................................................................................................................... 21
Migrating hard drives to an optional Smart Array controller ................................................................................... 21
Migrating hard drives to an optional Smart Array controller (Windows) ...................................................... 21
Migrating drives to an optional host bus adapter ......................................................................................... 22
Software and configuration utilities ......................................................................................................... 23
HPE Smart Storage Administrator .......................................................................................................................... 23
Service Pack for ProLiant ....................................................................................................................................... 23
Intelligent Provisioning ........................................................................................................................................... 24
HPE UEFI System Utilities ..................................................................................................................................... 24
Using HPE UEFI System Utilities ................................................................................................................ 24
Diagnostic tools ...................................................................................................................................................... 25
Keeping the controller current ................................................................................................................................ 25
Support and other resources .................................................................................................................. 26
Support and training information ............................................................................................................................ 26
Electrostatic discharge ............................................................................................................................ 27
Preventing electrostatic discharge ......................................................................................................................... 27
Grounding methods to prevent electrostatic discharge .......................................................................................... 27

HP Smart Array B140i Specifications

General

Brand	HP
Model	Smart Array B140i
Category	Computer Hardware
Language	English