Comparison of the utilities .......................................................................................................................... 5

Support for standard configuration tasks ............................................................................................. 6

Support for advanced configuration tasks ........................................................................................... 6

HP Smart Array Advanced Pack ..................................................................................................... 8

About SAAP ............................................................................................................................................. 8

Required hardware .................................................................................................................................... 8

Option ROM Configuration for Arrays .......................................................................................... 10

About ORCA .......................................................................................................................................... 10

Using the ORCA menu-driven interface ...................................................................................................... 10

Creating a logical drive with ORCA ................................................................................................. 11

Installing a license key with ORCA .................................................................................................. 12

Using the ORCA CLI ................................................................................................................................ 13

HP Online Array Configuration Utility for NetWare ........................................................................ 15

About CPQONLIN .................................................................................................................................. 15

Summary of configuration procedure using CPQONLIN ............................................................................... 15

Operating CPQONLIN in manual configuration mode ................................................................................. 15

Menu options in CPQONLIN .......................................................................................................... 16

Typical manual configuration procedures ................................................................................................... 17

Creating a new array and logical drive ............................................................................................ 18

Adding spare drives ...................................................................................................................... 18

Setting the rebuild priority or expand priority .................................................................................... 19

Setting the accelerator ratio ............................................................................................................ 19

Expanding an array ....................................................................................................................... 20

Migrating RAID level or stripe size ................................................................................................... 20

HP Array Configuration Utility ...................................................................................................... 22

About ACU ............................................................................................................................................ 22

Native support for 64-bit and 32-bit operating systems................................................................................. 22

Accessing ACU in the offline environment ................................................................................................... 22

Launching ACU with HP Intelligent Provisioning (Gen8 or later) ........................................................... 23

Launching ACU during POST (Gen8 or later) .................................................................................... 23

Launching ACU from the SmartStart CD (G7 or earlier) ...................................................................... 23

Launching ACU from an ISO image (all generations) ......................................................................... 23

Accessing ACU in the online environment ................................................................................................... 27

Launching ACU on a local server ..................................................................................................... 28

Launching ACU on a local server to configure a remote server ............................................................ 29

Launching ACU on a remote server to configure a local server ............................................................ 30

Using the ACU GUI ................................................................................................................................. 31

Navigating the GUI ....................................................................................................................... 31

Configuration tasks ........................................................................................................................ 40

Diagnostics tasks ........................................................................................................................... 48

Wizards ....................................................................................................................................... 50

Using the ACU CLI .................................................................................................................................. 53

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