So recently I deployed 3 XenServer 6 hosts with local storage only. Our need was to virtualize approx 6 very old Centos QA servers running on ancient hardware. Since I did not have any dedicated network/san storage at my disposal I stuck 6, 146 SAS drives in each server and carved them up into a 410GB raid 10 array. However the XenServer install did not detect this secondary logical disk, so I had to figure out how to manualy create a storage repository using this new drive.
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How to Use Hpacucli in ESXi
Wow just stumbled into this one today as I was dreading having to reboot my ESXi 4.1 boxes just to see a few new local disks. Apparently you can install hpacucli in ESXi very easily, and whats even better is that you can install it directly on a datastore and use the install on any … Continue reading How to Use Hpacucli in ESXi
Reset HP ILO Via the Command Line
Its not unheard of that an HP ILO can become sick and slow down to a crawl. When this occurs a restart of the ILO is in order, which is easily accomplished via the ILO cli interface. Make sure that you have enabled ssh access in ilo.
ProLiant System Management Homepage
The HP Systems management homepage is a web based utility for managing and monitoring Proliant Servers. It can be installed via the ProLiant Support Pack DVD (on linux its just an rpm). Once installed you can modify the default settings via the perl script, hpSMHSetup.pl located in /usr/local/hp. To access your server's homepage navigate to … Continue reading ProLiant System Management Homepage
Latest HP Proliant SmartStart and Firmware DVDs 10-06-2010
If you are having issues with your HP server and were thinking about calling support, you might as well put down the phone. Seems to me that their default first step of troubleshooting is to advise you to upgrade to the latest firmware. According to HP support these were both release just a couple … Continue reading Latest HP Proliant SmartStart and Firmware DVDs 10-06-2010
Using hpacucli to Manage Disks on HP Servers Running Linux
Hpacucli is the a command line Array Configuration Utility program for Smart Array Controllers and RAID Array Controllers. The command can be installed in one of two ways; either by standalone rpm, or as part of the Proliant Support Pack. The utility is useful as it allows you to create and delete raid configs without having to reboot.
First run the hpacucli command to start the utility. Once the utility is started run the command below to show your arrays and disks.