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Contents
Component identification ............................................................................................................... 5
Controller components ............................................................................................................................... 5
Controller LEDs ......................................................................................................................................... 5
FBWC module LEDs ................................................................................................................................... 6
Specifications ............................................................................................................................... 8
Memory and storage capacity conventions ................................................................................................... 8
RAID conventions ...................................................................................................................................... 8
Controller features ..................................................................................................................................... 9
Basic features.................................................................................................................................. 9
HP SmartCache ............................................................................................................................... 9
HP Secure Encryption ....................................................................................................................... 9
HP SSD Smart Path ........................................................................................................................ 10
Supported server blades ........................................................................................................................... 10
Controller specifications ........................................................................................................................... 10
Installation and configuration ....................................................................................................... 12
Procedures for controllers in a server blade ................................................................................................. 12
Installing a mezzanine controller in an unconfigured server blade ........................................................ 12
Installing a mezzanine controller in a previously configured server blade .............................................. 13
Installing the mezzanine controller board .......................................................................................... 14
Configuration tools .................................................................................................................................. 14
HP Smart Storage Administrator ...................................................................................................... 14
ROM-Based Setup Utility ................................................................................................................. 15
Configuration procedures ......................................................................................................................... 15
Setting a controller as the boot controller .......................................................................................... 15
Setting the controller order .............................................................................................................. 16
Configuring an array ..................................................................................................................... 16
System maintenance tools ......................................................................................................................... 16
Updating firmware ........................................................................................................................ 16
Installing device drivers .................................................................................................................. 17
Managing servers with Insight Agents .............................................................................................. 17
Diagnostic tools ...................................................................................................................................... 17
Drive procedures ........................................................................................................................ 19
Identifying the status of a drive .................................................................................................................. 19
Identifying the status of a legacy drive .............................................................................................. 19
Identifying the status of an HP SmartDrive ......................................................................................... 20
Recognizing drive failure .......................................................................................................................... 21
Recognizing drive failure (legacy drives) .......................................................................................... 21
Recognizing drive failure (HP SmartDrive) ......................................................................................... 22
Effects of a hard drive failure on logical drives .................................................................................. 22
Compromised fault tolerance .......................................................................................................... 23
Recovering from compromised fault tolerance .................................................................................... 23
Replacing drives ..................................................................................................................................... 23
Before replacing drives .................................................................................................................. 24
Automatic data recovery (rebuild) .................................................................................................... 24
