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 as it stands:-

Gen 8 server has:-

2 x 2TB WD Gold in raid 1 running esxi 6.0

2 x 2TB WD Gold in Radi 1 containing VMs

Gen 10 plus server has:

2 x 250GB SSDs in raid 1 running esxi 7.0.U2

 

I’ve got the latest service pack and mounted that iso via ILO and its run and updated what needed (all automatic) and from what could tell it was only the raid card that had a update.

Not sure how the service packs for Hp work as never needed to bother before but sems latest is 2021.10 and not been once since so I presume last one was October 2021.  There is a newer bios version 2.54 (i’m running 2.52) but it doesn’t seem much update in that so i’ll wait till HP release next service pack, incase of any issue with the update.

As for the drive issue, I think i *may* have resolved it…… in the ilo is a Fans section and the min was set to 0% which meant the fan speed was operating mostly at 8% using optimal cooling.  i set it to increased cooling which seemed to push the fan speed up to 19%, let it at that for bout 30mins, rebooted and no error on boot up regarding bay 2 etc… so I’ve since put it back to optimal cooling and set the min fan speed to 12% and left that for a bit and again rebooted and no error.

I’ve now set the min to 10% so will see how that goes.  Just really looking for the lowest noise option :)

My concern is that at the moment the drive bays 1 & 2 (2 on the left hand side of the case) are SSDs so they have room for air to flow above etc, I’m slight apprehensive putting my 2 x WD Gold 3.5″ drives as they will fit each drive slot so will see what happens.

I did think I had other issues but it seems these are normal :)

the BMC temp is 75C, says s all o but seems a bit high but then i looked on line and someone else is at 80C and they tried everything and even went to HP, they shipped him new MB, all fitted and same results but effectively HP gave up when they realised he was home user and not in proper datacenter environment and they didn’t have time to get a server and test it… doesn’t bow well..

but alas, it seems that is normal for this server so I’m ok with that, not much room to start adding fans etc tbh anyway.

So for now I’ve got OS up and running and will start to move my VMs off as I have a copy and will then chance removing the 2 drives and putting into gen 10, never moved a raid before so that’s, I’ll check out that link you posted :)

oh also bought a ilo advanced license so just waiting on that too :)

Kev

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