


- PROLIANT ML350 G6 DISK LED BLINKING AMBER UPDATE
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If the light issue persists, you should be looking at a few things. If it doesn't, there's really nothing wrong with your disks or array. Watch the POST messages and see if the system prompts you to press F1 at the conclusion of the POST sequence. That's why I asked you to power off (remove power cables) and power on. The Smart Array P410i RAID controller in that system will tell you in no uncertain terms what it thinks the status of the disks and array are. I do think that you could provide more information about the Smart Array RAID controller's status during the system's POST process. I work with a considerable number of HP servers and haven't seen this as a widespread problem. I saw your note about defective HP disks. The photo looks like your system is an HP ProLiant D元60 G6 or G7 1U rackmount server. In a couple of weeks I'll be retiring the machine so it can live out the rest of it's life doing non-critical stuff until it finally croaks. Still no indication anything is wrong on the Array Config Utility and no warnings or prompts on boot up. Having completely rebooted the machine from a cold start the warning lights persist. OK I had to wait some time before I could power down the machine.
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I am running the diagnostic software issued by HP to confirm for sure. I have discovered that HP have issued a Customer Advisory on a known fault for this precise drive. The lights may be amber, it's hard to say from the picture I was given. Here's a picture of the drives with the illuminated warning lights. Here's a screenshot from the HP Array Configuration Utility. There's nothing critical on the server but I'd like to resolve this if I can.
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Also one of these drives was only replaced approximate 3-4 months ago.Ĭould these lights indicate anything else other than an impending drive failure? Perhaps a firmware update or some warning further downstream relating to the health of the RAID controller? I've looked at the HP documentation here, but a steady amber or red light is said to indicate a failed drive. Both drives have a solid red light, however there is no indication within the management software that either are in a pre-failure state. Say it's the onboard controller, slot=0.Ĭtrl slot=0 ld 1 add drives=allunassignedįrom there, you can modify the logical drive to change its redundancy level (although this may be automatic in this specific case).I have a HP ProLiant web server with two HP 300GB SAS SFF 2.5 inch drives (Model: HP 507127-B21). Grab the controller slot number and logical drive ID. Going from RAID 0 to RAID 1 really only gives the option of adding a disk and changing the logical drive's redundancy level.Įnter hpacucli and run ctrl all show config Add the new disk(s) to the existing logical drive, then optionally expand the logical drive. You're basically going to run this in two steps.

But if that's not available, the hpacucli command-line utility will work as well.
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I prefer doing expansions via the graphical HP Online Array Configuration utility enabled by ( cpqacuxe -R and browsing to ) if you have the full set of HP Management Agents installed. You may even have a blinking amber light on the drive, versus the solid amber indicating failure. The disk described in the original problem is a drive pre-failure (either from S.M.A.R.T. I'm not sure if you've completed this yet, but this is definitely possible, assuming your Smart Array controller has a battery or flash-back cache unit (needed for all RAID-level tranformations/expansions).
