HPE Smart Path and Storage Spaces Direct

[ente]

Hello Guys,

does anyone have a recommendation on enabling or disabling SSD Smart Path on S2D-Nodes?

I know that it should be disabled f.e. for vSAN.

Thanks!

[SanjeevGoyal]

Hello,

Please follow the below documents for more clarification.

HPE ProLiant Gen8/HP ProLiant Gen9 Servers - HP SSD Smart Path vs HP SmartCache

https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-a00044117en_us&docLocale=en_US

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[ente]

Thank you for your response. I read the document, but I can not find an answer to my question.

In an S2D Environment on HP Nodes, is it better to use the feature or not?

Thank you!

[SanjeevGoyal]

Hello,

Thank you for your reply.

You can use, you have to update the HPE driver for  HPE SA controller as well as dose the SA controller HBA mode in RBSU.

Please follow the below Implementing Windows Server 2016 documents for more clarifications.

Implementing Windows Server 2016 Storage Spaces Direct using HPE ProLiant servers

https://h20195.www2.hpe.com/v2/GetPDF.aspx/4AA6-8953ENW.pdf

Regards,