

This is informative page to show you what was created. Logical Devices – Create Array – Parity Initialization Method and SSD Over Provisioning Optimization STEP 5) Logical Drive on the new array was successfully created. Select “Do not perform SSD Over Provisioning Optimization on the Array” if you do not want to zeroing your devices before using them and click on “Create Logical Drive” button. Logical Devices – Create Array – RAID 6 (ADG), 256 KiB Stip size STEP 4) Leave “Parity Initialization Method” as default – no use not to be able to use your disks when initialization is in progress. The ADG means Advanced Data Guarding and it is a proprietary HP technology. The size of the array, you could choose less than the maxium and then to create another array (even with different RAID Level than this one despite using the same disks). Here we selected 256 KiB and the Full Stripe Size is 2 (selected disks -2 for redundancy i.e. Logical Devices – Create Array – select disks STEP 3) Set various features of the array – RAID Level to RAID 6 (ADG).Ĭhoose wisely your Strip size according to your workload.

You could use “Select All” to select all disks at once.

STEP 2) Select the disks, which will be included in the new array. There are the steps to create RAID 6 (ADG) using Smart Storage Administrator: STEP 1) Click on “Create Array” to create a new array.
Hp raid 6 how to#
You may check our more detail article on how to start HPE Smart Storage Administrator on your server here: Review of Smart Array P440 on a server HP ProLiant DL160 Gen9 using iLO – create, modify, delete array and view controller settings
Hp raid 6 manual#
No data loss is available to the tested server HP ProLiant DL160 GEN9, check the manual for your generation. This article is to show how to create RAID 6 (ADG) in Smart Array P440 hardware controller and what kind of migration is possible from RAID 6 on this controller.Įxisting RAID 6 could be migrated to RAID 0 or RAID 5 or RAID 1+0 (so the RAID Level transformation is possible) with different Stip size (any of the supported in the controller) on-the-fly with no data loss!
