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]

Well managed to get all VMS copied off.

Took the drives out and put into gen 10 plus (same order) and went into the raid config, on first page it only shows SSDs no physical drives, but ont he right it says 2 logical volumes and 4 physical drives

Click on the controller and clicking configure shows logic drive A as 2 x ssd and logic drives B as 2 x 2TB drives in raid 1

So I’ve seen no option to adopt or import or whatever so after checking around some more, I simply rebooted the box and let it boot up – it booted up into esxi and when I logged into esxi web gui, it even showed the 2 TB drive with correct name and all VMs were there, they just needed to be registered in esxi to then boot them up.

I’m still not entirely sure if this is correct as previously on HP smart arrays it shows the drives on the main screen so little puzzled but it looks to work so fingers crossed

I’m now keeping a copy of the VMs as of today on nas so it will only be the VMs that are changed that will result in some data loss etc but at least i got main VMS

On the downside, the bay 2 issue is back saying overheating…. I’ve now increased the fan speed to 20% but still says it on boot up, after boot up ILO reports all temps as ok and within spec so little confused here.  Prob is, i can’t have the fans going too much more as where the box will live will be too noisy so I’m waiting for memory to arrive, will fit than and then it will be moment of truth when i fit the box into its actual location and then see what its like then.

At the moment its right next to me on my desk so it could just seem more noisy than the gen 8 but in fact isn’t.

Vms are booted back up and running ok, i think i’ve also migrated from FRS to DFSR so now setting up new 2022 O/S’s to replace my DC & Db server with.

Kev

Kev

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