HP Smart Storage Administrator CLI for Linux environments Version 1.60-17.0 (linuxX64) 12/5/2013 Description ----------- The HP Smart Storage Administrator CLI (HPSSACLI) is a commandline-based disk configuration program for Smart Array Controllers. * All other product names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies. Support ------- Supported Operating Systems SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (x86_64) SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86_64) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (x86_64) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (x86_64) with the "Compatibility Package" installed to include the 32-bit libraries. Debian Sarge 64 bit Debian Etch (amd64) * All these platforms need to have the following driver upgrades: CISS driver version 2.4.50 or later These drivers and Fibre Channel HBA drivers are available from http://www.hp.com. Supported Controllers Smart Array P410i Controller Smart Array P411 Controller Smart Array P212 Controller Smart Array P712m Controller Smart Array B110i SATA RAID Smart Array P812 Controller Smart Array P220i Controller Smart Array P222 Controller Smart Array P420 Controller Smart Array P420i Controller Smart Array P421 Controller Smart Array P822 Controller Smart Array P721m Controller Dynamic Smart Array B320i RAID Dynamic Smart Array B120i RAID Smart Array P430 Controller Smart Array P431 Controller Smart Array P731m Controller Smart Array P230i Controller Smart Array P530 Controller Smart Array P531 Controller Smart Array P830 Controller Smart Array P830i Controller Installing & Running the HP Smart Storage Administrator CLI -------------------------------------------------------------- Installation: HPSSACLI is distributed using Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) packages and .deb packages for Debian. If there is an older version of HPSSACLI installed on the system, please use "rpm -e hpssacli" to remove it first. Use "rpm -i <file name>" to install the application. Please type "man rpm" for other details regarding RPM. NOTE: On Debian systems, a ".deb" package file can be installed using the "dpkg -i hpssacli.xxx.deb" command. The dpkg -r hpssacli command is used to remove the package. The software resides in /opt/hp/hpssacli and the executable name is hpssacli which is located in /usr/sbin. When attempting to run HPSSACLI on any HP-supported version of Linux, it is highly recommended that you install the latest version of the HP ProLiant Smart Array Controller driver for your intended Linux operating system. Drivers may be obtained by clicking on "Support & Drivers" from HP's website at: http://www.hp.com For Debian 64 bit: dpkg -i --force-architecture <file name>. hpssacli requires the libunwind bit package to be installed. Run the HPSSACLI: Make sure that you have gone through the following checklist: . You run hpssacli as root. To start the application: If /usr/sbin is already added in your path, just type: "hpssacli". More options can be found by typing "hpssacli help". Also see the "Using HPSSACLI" section of this document, located after Feedback. Exiting HPSSACLI: 1. To exit the HPSSACLI, type "exit" while at the CLI command console. Additional Notes ---------------- 1. After creating or deleting logical drives with HPSSACLI, under some special circumstances, the device name mapping might change after you first reboot the system. Also, Linux might see previously not visible logical drives after rebooting. This name mapping problem is common to all SCSI devices on Linux. 2. Do not insert or remove a controller driver module when hpssacli is running. 3. Please stop the HP Storage Agents when deleting logical drives since HP Storage Agents keeps all logical drives open. 4. If all physical drives on a controller fail or are removed, software keys will not be saved to the controller. 5. HPSSACLI may appear unresponsive during heavy array controller I/O conditions, such as during a partition format or a logical drive rebuild. 6. HPSSACLI will not prevent the deletion of logical drives on fibre controllers that have mounted partitions. 7. When using Linux as the host operating system, if a Smart Array controller has 16 or more volumes configured, deleting any volume in HPSSACLI will not update the /proc/partitions to reflect the deletion of the device node associated with that volume. Rebooting the server will cause the update to happen. Note that there is also a limitation that only the first 16 volumes configured will be available to the operating system. 8. On RHEL5 systems, for this version of the HPSSACLI version 3.6.18-10 or newer of the HP ProLiant Smart Array Controller Driver for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (x86, x86-64) is required. Drivers may be obtained by clicking on �Support & Drivers� from HP�s website at: http://www.hp.com Notes for HPSSA Scripting ----------------------- * HPSSA scripting (HPSSASCRIPTING) now uses a new engine to auto configure volumes. When using the AUTO mode, it will attempt to configure two volumes; an OS volume and a Data volume. The OS volume will be RAID1, while the Data volume will be the highest possible RAID up to 6, depending on the number of disks and RAID modes supported by the controller. Spares may be automatically allocated. All user input in the input config file is ignored in AUTO mode. The actual volumes created will depend on the controller, the number and size of disks and the status of license keys in the controller. * In scripting input/output, 2 disk mirrors are considered RAID1, 4 disk and higher mirrors are RAID10. For compatibility, input scripts still accept RAID1 for 4+ disk mirrors, however we recommend moving to the new argument terminology as soon as possible. * ARRAY and VOLUME arguments in configure mode can be specified as "Next", which will use the next available ID. * DRIVE arguments can be a number or wildcard, e.g. "*" or "2". In the first example, all available drives will be used, in the second two drives will be used. * The CONTROLLER argument can be FIRST. Controllers are sorted after discovery, the order being: internal before external, in ascending slot order. This ensures that the input CONTROLLER=FIRST will target an internal controller (SLOT=0) or the controller in the lowest PCI slot. * To improve performance, use the REPEAT keyword when creating multiple identical logical drives. Feedback -------- For support for HPSSACLI or Smart Array controllers, please visit the web at http://support.hp.com.