I use HP Proliant DL380e Gen8 server and would like to upgrade it with hardware left from older servers I mean RAID card left from HP Gen6 server - P410 with 512MB cache and BBWC
I successfully physically installed RAID card P410 into Gen8 server and even pick up RAID data from my HDDs left from entry level HP Dynamic Smart Array b120i adapter
in any case P410 RAID adapter was re-configured with Intelligent Provisioning and new RAID arrays was successfully re-created in same size as it was before
Gen8 server successfully pick up P410 adapter for boot priority in BIOS
but unfortinally I found out that P410 RAID adapter was unable to indicate correct activity on HDDs LED lights
firmware upgrade of P410 RAID adapter didn't solve this problem ((
any ideas on fixing minor bugs on supporting HP hardware on HP hardware?
Storage Controller which is designed to support the server model DL380p Gen8 as below and if incompatibility controller is installed on the server the appropriate function level will not support.
One of the following depending on model
Entry Model - SATA
HP Dynamic Smart Array B120i Controller
NOTE: Provides support for up to 6 SATA drives and data transmission speeds up to 3Gb/s
Entry Model - SAS
HP Dynamic Smart Array B320i/512MB FBWC Controller
NOTE: Provides support for up to 8 SAS/SATA drives, data transmission speeds up to 6Gb/s and includes SAS license key.
Base Models - LFF
HP Dynamic Smart Array B320i/512MB FBWC Controller
NOTE: Provides support for up to 8 SATA drives, data transmission speeds up to 6Gb/s and requires purchase of SAS license key for SAS mode.
Base Model - SFF
HP Dynamic Smart Array B320i/512MB FBWC Controller
NOTE: Provides support for up to 8 SAS/SATA drives, data transmission speeds up to 6Gb/s and includes SAS license key.
High Performance Models
HP Smart Array P420/1GB FBWC Controller (RAID 0/1/1+0/5/5+0/6/6+0)
Storage Models - LFF
HP Smart Array P420/1GB FBWC Controller (RAID 0/1/1+0/5/5+0/6/6+0)
Storage Models - SFF
HP Smart Array P420/2GB FBWC Controller (RAID 0/1/1+0/5/5+0/6/6+0)
