Review of Smart Array P440 on a server HP ProLiant DL160 Gen9 using iLO – create, modify, delete array and view controller settings

SCREENSHOT 31) Select the controller Smart Array P440 and click on “Modify Controller Settings” to modify the global controller settings.

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Smart Array P440 – Modify Controller Settings

SCREENSHOT 32) Here is what is available – Transformation Priority -> High, Medium, Low (related to the IO used for the transformation), Rebuild priority (related to the IO used for the rebuilding process), Surface Scan Analysis Priority, Current Parallel Surface Scan Count, Physical Drive Write Cache State.

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Smart Array P440 – Modify Controller Settings – available

SCREENSHOT 33) Select the controller Smart Array P440 and click on “Advanced Controller Settings” to modify the advanced controller settings. The Settings, which could improve the controller’s performance in different use cases.

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Smart Array P440 – Advanced Controller Settings

SCREENSHOT 34) “A collection of settings to enhance controller performance for the intended workload”

The options are: Default Settings, Video-On-Demand Optimized Settings.

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Smart Array P440 – Advanced Controller Settings – Selected Performance Profile

SCREENSHOT 35) “Sets the degraded performance mode of the controller”

The available options are Enabled and Disabled.

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Smart Array P440 – Advanced Controller Settings – Parity RAID Degraded Mode Performance Optimization

SCREENSHOT 36) “Allows enabling or disabling of the drive elevator sort for the controller”

The available options are Enabled and Disabled.

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Smart Array P440 – Advanced Controller Settings – Physical Drive Request Elevator Sort

SCREENSHOT 37) “Sets the inconsistency repair policy for the controller”

The available options are Enabled and Disabled. Scroll down for more settings.

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Smart Array P440 – Advanced Controller Settings – RAID6/60 Alternate Inconsistency Repair Policy

SCREENSHOT 38) “Sets the monitor and performance delay for the controller”

An available option is a number between 0 and 1440.

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Smart Array P440 – Advanced Controller Settings – Monitor and Performance Analysis Delay

SCREENSHOT 39) “Enables or disables the Flexible Latency Scheduler to limit high latency requests on Hard Disk Drives (HDD)”

The available options are: Disabled, Low, Middle (100ms), High, Very High (30ms), Very High (10ms).

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Smart Array P440 – Advanced Controller Settings – HDD Flexible Latency Optimization

SCREENSHOT 40) Click on the controller Smart Array P440 on the left and then click on “Modify Spare Activation Mode” to modify disk spare behavior – predictive or not.

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Smart Array P440 – Modify Spare Activation Mode

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