Reply To: HPE E208i-p Raid Card HI all, So it seems the only raid card supported by HP is the HPE E208i-p raid card. Whilst I’m loathed spent the £200 on the card, it is looking…

[kev2021]

Hi all,

So, raid card arrived – yipee

drive caddies arrived – yipee

Memory was due to arrive but that’s where it all went down hill…. was due for delivery, out on van etc… checking it this afternoon, results in delivery problem – address issue – no option to update address etc so only option was to call them up.

So takes ages to get through – prob 20 mins… get through tell the guy, seems they had the wrong house number.. no idea how as i ordered it from same company that I got server from and have an account wit them and never changed address so bit odd.

Guy said he would try sort it out now and hopefully would get today – nothing.. latest status after just checking is its back at the depo and scheduled for 2nd delivery, next working day so I presume Monday now… no details saying address has been updated so unsure on that…

So decided to set it up as is…. more issues..

The raid card, with the bracket fitted the same as the full height one, just will not fit into the available slot.. the bracket stops it .. so after taking ilo, riser card out and trying independent of server as its a bit tricky and small area… only solution was to fit the low height bracket instead on on the front, put the bracket behind it – hey presto, it fits perfectly….

So got that all back onto the board, start to push the MB tray back into the case and immediate issue, the SAS cable is pushing the front of the raid card down quiet badly.. so pull it out… try to re-arrange cable, cad to cut bit of the label round the cable to give it a bit of extra wiggle room and managed to get it back in without it pressing down on the board too much so all looks ok now.

So put it all together, put in my 2 SSDs (those trays will be a pain to get out as not much to told on to etc but will see how they go.  Anyway HP box complaining of overheating in bay 2…. its only been on by now maybe 10mins.. ???? bit odd.. anyway went into raid controller, the 860 EVO it see as 100% life, the 850 EVO – nothing showing next to it, not even 0%…. it then complains about being in mixed mode but upon reading, it seems this is default and you cant’ change it and says it wont be visible to OS… anyway I decided at this point, no data on it so nothing lost went for it and it has let me install esxi on it with no issues.

Machine still complaining of overheating in bay 2 so my current thinking is maybe the SSD is no good or there is a issue with the actual bay but its all a bit small inside there so hard to tell.

I don’t have another SSD to replace the 850 EVO with at the moment and buying one seems pretty hard so will see.  At the moment nothing lost as no VMS on it etc.

I might try taking the cover off tomorrow and powering it on and just see if any air is getting through etc but its a bit hard as effectively he drives slide in at the front directly onto the SATA board at the back.

If it seems ok then I’ll have to get another drive, if that doesn’t work then I guess its a call to HP maybe?  I have marked the 2 IML log entries as repaired incase it is just flagging up earlier faults :)

Kev

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