HP Archive

25 September

How to solve the ‘Cache 1’ Backup Power Source (Capacitors) Status = ‘Charging’. Warning

Written by Marco

One of our HP Storevirtual P4530 server was giving the following Warning. ‘Cache 1’ Backup Power Source (Capacitors) Status = ‘Charging’. WARNING (E01020401) When this error occurs the performance of the Storevirtual Storage environment is terrible. Very high latency’s...

Error, Firmware, HP, Lefthand, StoreVirtual HP 1 Comment

02 July

High write latency on HP StoreVirtual environment with VMware vSphere 5.1

Written by Marco

Last week I started a new project with six new HP StoreVirtual storage nodes (HP P4330G3) and four VMware vSphere 5.1U1 ESXi servers. After successfully installing VMware vCenter 5.1U1 I started to notice a big write latency issue on...

HP, Lefthand, Performance, StoreVirtual, VMware HP, VMware 6 Comments

10 September

How to solve HP P4000 Cache Status Corrupt

Written by Marco

I was working on an HP P4300 Lefthand SAN solution and trying to create a management group when I got an error about an nvram card that is not normal, see screenshot. When I run the All Tests at...

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03 September

HP MSA2324SA Firmware update loop

Written by Marco

This week I was working on a project with an HP MSA 2324 SA storage box. After unboxing it and checking the software I discovered that the Firmware was a bit old, so I checked the HP site for updates...

Firmware, HP, MSA HP 1 Comment

16 December

HP Sizer for Microsoft Hyper-V 2008 R2

Written by Marco

HP released an Sizer tool for Microsoft Hyper-V 2008 R2. Source : http://h71019.www7.hp.com/ActiveAnswers/us/en/sizers/microsoft-hyper-v2008.html The HP Sizer for Microsoft Hyper-V 2008 R2 is an automated, downloadable tool that provides quick and helpful sizing guidance for “best-fit” HP server and storage...

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30 November

Upgrading ESX 4.0 to 4.0 Update 1 on HP Proliant systems can fail

Written by Marco

Upgrading ESX 4.0 to 4.0 Update 1 on HP Proliant systems can fail or time out and leave the host in an unusable state if the host has HP Insight Management Agents running Symptoms On HP Proliant systems, when...

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03 November

Installing HP Insight Management Agents on VMWare ESX 4 server

Written by Marco

Installing HP Insight Management Agents on ESX Server In this case, I am using HP Insight Management Agents for VMware 8.2.5 (available here). I am also using a HP DL380 G6 Proliant servers with VMware versions 4.0. Note: do not...

ESX, HP HP, VMware 2 Comments