Server Blade Deployment Tools; Software Drivers And Additional Components; Proliant P-Class Advanced Management - HP ProLiant BL35p User Manual

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To delete an array, select Delete Array on the Manage Array screen, and then press Y. (To cancel the
deletion, press N).
When a volume has been deleted, it cannot be recovered. When a RAID 1 volume is deleted, the data is
preserved on the primary disk. The master boot records of other disks in the array are deleted. For other
RAID types, the master boot records of all disks are deleted.
Locating a disk drive
There are two ways to physically locate a disk drive:
On the Create New Array screen, the drive locator LED is on when a drive is selected to be part of a
RAID volume. When the RAID volume is created, or the drive is deselected from the volume, the
locator LED is off.
On the SAS Topology screen, move the cursor to the drive, and then press Enter. The locator LED on
the drive remains lit until another key is pressed.
Selecting a boot disk
To select a boot disk:
On the Adapter List screen, select an adapter.
1.
On the Adapter Properties screen, select SAS Topology. The SAS Topology screen is displayed. If
2.
selection of a boot device is supported, the Alt+B option is listed at the bottom of the screen. If a
device is currently configured as the boot device, the Device Info column displays the word Boot.
To remove the boot disk designator, move the cursor to the current boot disk and press Alt+B.
The adapter no longer has a designated boot device.
To select a boot disk, move the cursor to the disk, and press Alt+B. The selected disk moves to
scan ID 0 on the next boot and remains at this position. There can be only one boot disk.

Server blade deployment tools

Software drivers and additional components

HP offers the following additional software components for server blades:
Health and Wellness driver and IML viewer
iLO Advanced Management interface driver
Rack infrastructure interface service
For Microsoft® Windows® OS users, these items are included in the ProLiant Support Pack for Microsoft®
Windows®, available from the HP website
(http://h18002.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/index.html).
Linux OS users can download these components from the HP website
(http://www.hp.com/products/servers/linux).
For information on how to use these components with a Linux OS, refer to the HP website
(http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/servers/linux/documentation.html).

ProLiant p-Class Advanced management

iLO Advanced is a standard component of ProLiant p-Class server blades that provides server health and
remote server blade manageability. Its features are accessed from a network client device using a
supported web browser. In addition to other features, iLO Advanced provides keyboard, mouse, and
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