HP Array Diagnostic Utilities on OpenVZ?

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Fortel

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I've searched a bit, not having much luck...

We have 3 HP DL360 G5 servers, all successfully running Proxmox. (1.3)

We're trying to install HP's ADU / hpacucli utilities on an OpenVZ guest, and although it seems to install and start, we cannot get any controllers to show up.

Wondering if it's even possible to run the HP array utilities from a guest os... We'd rather not touch the host, if that can be avoided.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Peter
 
Fortel said:
I've searched a bit, not having much luck...

We have 3 HP DL360 G5 servers, all successfully running Proxmox. (1.3)

We're trying to install HP's ADU / hpacucli utilities on an OpenVZ guest, and although it seems to install and start, we cannot get any controllers to show up.

Wondering if it's even possible to run the HP array utilities from a guest os... We'd rather not touch the host, if that can be avoided.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Peter
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I have currently no HP server here, so I cannot test. Any feedback from the HP support?
 
Fortel said:
We're trying to install HP's ADU / hpacucli utilities on an OpenVZ guest, and although it seems to install and start, we cannot get any controllers to show up.

Wondering if it's even possible to run the HP array utilities from a guest os... We'd rather not touch the host, if that can be avoided.
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why would you want to do it? I think it's dangerous.

stef1777 said:
Versions for Debian Lenny are available here as .deb

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsuppor...sId=1121486&swLang=8&taskId=135&swEnvOID=4033

Not yet tried but I should. ;-)
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Oh, thanks. I've been thinking there are only rpms available, and hasn't much converting them with alien to deb. Will try these now.
 
Burn said:
why would you want to do it? I think it's dangerous.
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We need to be able to monitor the drives, etc, in our servers. HP has the software to do it. We just haven't had any success in running it from a Proxmox OpenVZ guest. A KVM image may produce a better result, but that's not our preference.

Thanks for the HP / Debian links. We've been there... but we'll put some more time into it. Was hoping someone had already pioneered the path to success...

Thanks,

Peter
 
I will be interested to know your result test. I also have some DL360G5.

Not found the time to try myself. I found this URL just last week.
 
We're not having any luck. We've installed the HP ADU utilities on guest images (both Debian and CentOS) and can launch the software. But the controller isn't detected.

Wondering what others are doing to monitor the drive arrays in their HP DL series servers...

Peter
 
Seems to work fine !!!

I have a DL360G5. I installed hpacucli deb on one of my Proxmox VE 1.5 node.

aweb-vs001:~# hpacucli
HP Array Configuration Utility CLI 8.28-13.0
Detecting Controllers...Done.
Type "help" for a list of supported commands.
Type "exit" to close the console.

=>

=> ctrl all show

Smart Array P400i in Slot 0 (Embedded) (sn: xxxxxxxxxxx )
 
Stef1777,

So I understand correctly, you installed hpacucli on a Debian vz guest node, as opposed to the hardware host?

If so, then maybe the difference is 1.3 (the version I'm using) and your 1.5 installation.
 
Okay, finally gave up trying to make hpacucli installed on a VZ guest talk to the controller. The installation (hpacucli_8.28-13.0.10-9_amd64.deb) on the host was easy, and seems to work fine. Next task will be a script to check the array and, if a change exists, to email the information.

Peter
 
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