SD5 does not support HP DL 320e Gen8 V2 Dynamic Smart Array B120i
Good morning,
i have the Problem that SD4 does not support the HP raid controller dynamic smart array B120i.
so i looking forward to SD5 but as i see it aleady did not support this controller with an raid1 bound!
is it planned to implement that or have i'm looking forward to on other product!
thanks in advance
Mark

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Hi Mark,
I've recently just experienced a similar issue I believe with my HP DL360e Gen 8 server as well since it also has a dynamic smart array but its the B320i.
It's too bad that it's not completely straightforward either, which is why I went with the Snap Deploy and waited for 5.0 to be compatible with Server 2012 R2.
Anyway I've just gotten through the problem with Senior Tech support for drive array detection for my B320i and the key was to include the proper driver into the WinPE created bootable media. We tried the existing supported driver but it's strictly 64 bit for 2012 R2. I had to select the smart array driver for Server 2008 W32 to get the previous 32 bit driver. The 32 bit drivers were required to be compatible with the detection in the WinPE environment (at least that is the way I interpretted the explanation from tech support). Just a note here that the INF file has the same name and date but is only a few kB different. Obviously alot different.
So after that it was simple, the 1 driver included into the WinPE bootable media creation and then the server detected perfectly and imaged perfectly.
I haven't proven it yet with a restore but that's next....
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Hello Steve,
thx for your tip, i have created an pe iso like you said, but the standalone Utility is missing in the boot menu!
any idea??
thx
mark
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