Dedicated Spare; Failure Spare Activation; Performing Maintenance; Updating Firmware - HPE ProLiant User Manual

Dedicated spare

Dedicated spare
The dedicated spare drive activates any time a drive within the array fails.

Failure spare activation

Failure spare activation
Failure spare activation mode activates a spare drive when a member drive within an array fails using fault tolerance methods to regenerate
the data.
Assigning one or more online spare drives to an array enables you to postpone replacement of faulty drives.

Performing maintenance

Performing maintenance
NOTE: NOTE:
The following maintenance tasks are not supported on an HPE Synergy compute module:
Downloading Active Health System data

Updating firmware

Using iLO Configuration Utility
To perform these tasks on an HPE Synergy compute module, you must use HPE OneView.
Subtopics Subtopics
Updating firmware Updating firmware
Setting Intelligent Provisioning Preferences Setting Intelligent Provisioning Preferences
Downloading Active Health System data Downloading Active Health System data
Using Deployment Settings Using Deployment Settings
Using the BIOS Configuration (RBSU) utility Using the BIOS Configuration (RBSU) utility
About iLO Configuration About iLO Configuration
Configuring Intelligent Storage Configuring Intelligent Storage
About Hardware Validation Tool About Hardware Validation Tool
One-button secure erase One-button secure erase
Using System Erase and Reset Using System Erase and Reset
Creating a RAID configuration with SSA Creating a RAID configuration with SSA
Updating firmware Updating firmware
Prerequisites Prerequisites
1. To update firmware, make sure that port 443 is open for SSL communication.
2. Generate token by the following steps:
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