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

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

Launching ACU with HP Intelligent Provisioning (Gen8 or later) ............................................................ 22

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 .............................................................. 29

Using the ACU GUI .................................................................................................................................... 30

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

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

Diagnostics tasks .............................................................................................................................. 46

Wizards .......................................................................................................................................... 48

Using the ACU CLI ..................................................................................................................................... 51

Opening the CLI in Console mode ..................................................................................................... 52

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