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Contents
Overview ..................................................................................................................................... 5
About HP SSA .......................................................................................................................................... 5
Array configuration overview ...................................................................................................................... 6
Benefits of using HP SSA .................................................................................................................. 6
Array configuration guidelines .......................................................................................................... 8
Minimum requirements ..................................................................................................................... 8
Native support for 64-bit and 32-bit operating systems................................................................................... 8
Operations ................................................................................................................................. 10
Accessing HP SSA in the offline environment ............................................................................................... 10
Launching HP SSA with HP Intelligent Provisioning (Gen8 or later) ....................................................... 10
Launching HP SSA during POST (Gen8 or later) ................................................................................ 10
Launching HP SSA from an ISO image (all generations) ..................................................................... 10
Accessing HP SSA in the online environment ............................................................................................... 14
Launching HP SSA on a local server................................................................................................. 14
Launching HP SSA on a local server to configure a remote server ........................................................ 15
Launching HP SSA on a remote server to configure a local server ........................................................ 15
Using the HP SSA GUI ............................................................................................................................. 16
Icon and key stroke legend ............................................................................................................. 17
Navigating the GUI ....................................................................................................................... 18
Configuration tasks ........................................................................................................................ 23
Diagnostic tasks ............................................................................................................................ 44
Using the HP SSA CLI .............................................................................................................................. 46
Opening the CLI in Console mode ................................................................................................... 47
Opening the CLI in Command mode ................................................................................................ 47
CLI syntax ..................................................................................................................................... 47
Typical procedures ........................................................................................................................ 52
Using HP SSA scripting ............................................................................................................................ 70
Capturing a configuration ............................................................................................................... 70
Using an Input script ...................................................................................................................... 70
Creating an HP SSA script file ......................................................................................................... 71
Script file options ........................................................................................................................... 75
XML support .................................................................................................................................. 90
HP SSA scripting warning messages ................................................................................................ 94
HP SSA scripting error messages ..................................................................................................... 94
Troubleshooting ........................................................................................................................ 101
HP Smart Storage Administrator Diagnostics Utility CLI ............................................................................... 101
About the utility ........................................................................................................................... 101
Reported information ................................................................................................................... 101
Installing the utility ....................................................................................................................... 103
Launching the utility in CLI mode .................................................................................................... 104
Diagnostic report procedures ........................................................................................................ 104
SmartSSD Wear Gauge report procedures ..................................................................................... 104
Drive arrays and fault-tolerance methods .................................................................................................. 106
Drive arrays ................................................................................................................................ 106
Effects of a hard drive failure on logical drives ................................................................................ 108
