HP Smart Storage Adstrator Contents, Troubleshooting

Contents
Overview.....................................................................................................................................	5
About HP SSA .............................................................................................................................................	5
Benefits of using HP SSA...............................................................................................................................	5
Support for configuration tasks ............................................................................................................	6
Array configuration ......................................................................................................................................	8
Array configuration guidelines.............................................................................................................	8
Minimum requirements........................................................................................................................	9
Native support for 64-bit and 32-bit operating systems ....................................................................................	9
Operations.................................................................................................................................	10
Accessing HP SSA in the offline environment.................................................................................................	10
Launching HP SSA with HP Intelligent Provisioning (Gen8 or later) ........................................................	10
Launching HP SSA during POST (Gen8 or later) ..................................................................................	10
Launching HP SSA from an ISO image (all generations) .......................................................................	11
Accessing HP SSA in the online environment.................................................................................................	14
Launching HP SSA on a local server...................................................................................................	15
Launching HP SSA on a local server to configure a remote server..........................................................	15
Launching HP SSA on a remote server to configure a local server..........................................................	16
Using the HP SSA GUI................................................................................................................................	17
Icon and key stroke legend ...............................................................................................................	17
Navigating the GUI..........................................................................................................................	18
Configuration tasks...........................................................................................................................	23
Diagnostic tasks ...............................................................................................................................	53
Using the HP SSA CLI .................................................................................................................................	55
Opening the CLI in Console mode .....................................................................................................	55
Opening the CLI in Command mode ..................................................................................................	56
CLI syntax........................................................................................................................................	56
Typical procedures ...........................................................................................................................	61
Using HP SSA scripting...............................................................................................................................	80
Capturing a configuration .................................................................................................................	81
Using an Input script.........................................................................................................................	81
Creating an HP SSA script file ...........................................................................................................	81
Script file options .............................................................................................................................	86
XML support ..................................................................................................................................	102
HP SSA scripting warning messages ................................................................................................	105
HP SSA scripting error messages .....................................................................................................	106
Troubleshooting ........................................................................................................................	112
HP Smart Storage Administrator Diagnostics Utility CLI.................................................................................	112
About the utility..............................................................................................................................	112
Reported information ......................................................................................................................	112
Installing the utility..........................................................................................................................	114
Launching the utility in CLI mode......................................................................................................	115
Diagnostic report procedures...........................................................................................................	115
SmartSSD Wear Gauge report procedures .......................................................................................	115
512e Physical drive support ......................................................................................................................	116
Drive arrays and fault-tolerance methods ....................................................................................................	116
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