Hp Smart Array Advanced Pack; About Saap; Required Hardware - HP ProLiant DL360p Reference Manual

HP Smart Array Advanced Pack

About SAAP

SAAP is a collection of additional and advanced controller features embedded in the firmware of select
Smart Array controllers.
To access SAAP features, activate the software with a registered license key. (SAAP 1.0 is standard on the
HP Smart Array P812 Controller.)
SAAP 1.0 provides the following features:
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RAID 6 (ADG)
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RAID 60 (ADG)
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Advanced Capacity Expansion
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Mirror splitting and recombining in offline mode
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Drive Erase
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Performance optimization for video on demand
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Dual domain
SAAP 2.0 includes all v1.0 features and also provides the following additional features:
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RAID 1 (ADM)
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RAID 10 (ADM)
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Capability for moving and deleting individual LUNs
To access SAAP features, you must purchase a license key from HP. To obtain a license key, see the SAAP
product page on the HP website (http://www.hp.com/go/SAAP).
To install the license key and activate SAAP, use one of the following methods:
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Installing a license key with ORCA (on page 12)
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Installing a license key with ACU (on page 44)
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Installing a license key with ACU CLI
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Installing a license key with ACU Scripting
Some SAAP features are required for advanced configuration tasks in ACU. For a list of these tasks, see
"Support for advanced configuration tasks (on page 6)."

Required hardware

For a list of Smart Array controllers that support SAAP, see the SAAP product page on the HP website
(http://www.hp.com/go/SAAP).
To support some controller features, the controller may also require a hardware configuration that includes
the following cache (array accelerator) options:
("Entering or deleting a license
("LicenseKey, DeleteLicenseKey" on page 79)
key" on page 60)
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