HP Smart Storage Adstrator manual Support for configuration tasks

Using HP SSA over other configuration utilities provides the following benefits:

•GUI, CLI, and Scripting interfaces are available.

•English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, and Spanish languages are supported.

•Applications can be executed using the following tools: o Any bootable media, such as a software CD

o Any supported Host operating system with a web browser (Microsoft Windows 2003 is not supported. For a list of supported operating systems, see the HP website (http://www.hp.com/go/ossupport).)

o Intelligent Provisioning, which is embedded in HP ProLiant Gen8 and later servers

•All formats can run in both online and offline environments.

•The utility can run on any machine that uses a supported browser.

Support for configuration tasks

The following table uses these symbols:

+—The controller supports this task through HP SSA.

–—The controller supports this task through HP SSA only with a registered SAAP license key.

#—The controller supports this task through HP SSA only with a registered HP SmartCache license key.

To identify controller-specific feature support and SAAP requirements, see the controller user guide or the HP website (http://www.hp.com/go/smartarray).

For more information, see "About SAAP (on page 131)."

Procedure	HP Smart Array	HP Smart Array	HP Smart Array	HP Smart HBA Gen9
	G6 and G7	Gen8 controllers	Gen9 controllers	controllers
	controllers		(RAID mode)	(HBA Mode)
Activate or delete	+	+	+	+
license keys
Assign a RAID level	+	+	+	–
to a logical drive
Assign spare drives	+	+	+	–
to an array
Configure multiple	+1	+1	+1	+1
systems identically
Configure a RAID 6	–	+	P-Series only	–
logical drive
Configure a RAID	–	+	P-Series only	–
60 logical drive
Configure RAID 1	–	+	P-Series only	–
(ADM) and RAID 10
(ADM)
Copy the	–1	+1	+	+
configuration of one
system to multiple
systems
Create multiple	+	+	+	–
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