HPE ProLiant

Proliant is a popular x86 brand of server computers sell by HP with advanced features:

• Redundant and hot swappable power supplies
• Disk array controllers with hot swap disks: HPE ProLiant Smart Array Controllers
• Out of Band Management capabilities (HP Integrated Lights-Out or iLO)
• UEFI Secure Boot and Secure Start support
• FIPS 140-2 validation

HP provide drivers a software for managing servers such as Management Component Pack which includes

• HP online configuration utility (hponcfg)
• Agentless Management Service amsd
• Smart Storage Administrator (SSA) ssa
• Smart Storage Administrator (SSA) CLI ssacli
• Smart Storage Administrator Diagnostic Utility (SSADU) CLI ssaducli.

To install them follow installation instructions: apt-get install hponcfg amsd ssa ssacli ssaducli

Binaries provides by amsd package: amsd_rev amsd smad cpqiScsi smad_rev ahslog mr_cpqScsi

Models

• DL380 (up to 2 processors)
• DL580 (up to 4 processors). See also Dell PowerEdge R940.
• DL980
• Lenovo ThinkSystem SR950 (up to 8 processors, up to 28x cores per processor. Total: 224 cores)

Related terms

• Primary Riser, Secondary Riser
• HPE Synergy
• HPE Fast Fault Tolerance, A3DC

Activities

1. Read about different Proliant models and other competitors such as: Dell, IBM or Supermicro.
2. Identify characteristics of most popular models: DL380 (up to 2 CPUs/24-DIMM slots) and /DL580/.
   1. Read DL380 Gen10 QuickSpecs: https://h20195.www2.hpe.com/v2/getdocument.aspx?docname=a00008180enw
   2. Read DL380 Gen10 User Guide: https://h20628.www2.hp.com/km-ext/kmcsdirect/emr_na-a00019109en_us-11.pdf
   3. Read HP iLO User Guide: https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=a00074744en_us
3. Install latest LTS Ubuntu Server and install HP Management Component Pack
4. Use your browser to /Access to iLO/
5. /Remove a disk from your redundant storage array and review OS logs/ and verify output from ssacli ctrl slot=0 pd all show status
6. Read page about /HPE ProLiant Smart Array Controllers/
7. Enter HP Proliant iLO SSA aplication by pressing F9 and configure your disk array.
8. Learn about UEFI System Utilities User Guide for HPE ProLiant Gen10 https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-a00016407ja_jp
9. Learn about HPE Agentless Management: https://buy.hpe.com/us/en/software/server-management-software/server-ilo-management/ilo-management-engine/hpe-agentless-management/p/5219980
10. Learn about Service Pack for ProLiant (SPP)

See also

• HPE Proliant: HPE ProLiant Smart Array Controllers, iLO, DL380, DL560, DL580, ssacli [ show config | show status | show detail ], POST code, hponcfg, amsd, SPP
• ZFS and LVM
• mdadm Linux utility
• Computing vendors: HPE Proliant, Dell PowerEdge, Lenovo ThinkSystem, Supermicro

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