We clicked the Select All (4 Drives) check and clicked Save. Making sure that SAS Array A is selected we clicked on the Expand Array option. We unselected the spare drive and chose Save near the bottom right. We can't see the hot spare in Logical View so we change to Physical View.Ĭlick on the SAS Array A with Spare and we see the following options. The fourth disk we plan on adding to this array is actually the current Global Hot Spare. We then get a list showing any available disks, in this case 3, and the array we plan on expanding. We then select the P420i Smart Array controller. Next up is the Array Configuration Utility (ACU).
We start by opening the HP System Management Homepage. We managed to secure the additional three disks for the task but for now we will hold off on RAID 6 as that requires a 'feature activation license' according to HP. We had the RAM bumped up to 128GB and then suggested changing the existing 4 disk RAID 10 plus hot spare into a RAID 6 array across 8 disks. We started off with a new HP M元50p G8 that our now client had purchased.
