User's Manual

Overview 6
Using HP SSA over other configuration utilities provides the following benefits:
• GUI, CLI, and Scripting interfaces are available.
• English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, and Spanish languages are supported.
• Applications can be executed using the following tools:
o Any bootable media, such as a software CD
o Any supported Host operating system with a web browser (Microsoft Windows 2003 is not
supported. For a list of supported operating systems, see the HP website
(http://www.hp.com/go/ossupport).)
o Intelligent Provisioning, which is embedded in HP ProLiant Gen8 and later servers
• All formats can run in both online and offline environments.
• The utility can run on any machine that uses a supported browser.
Support for configuration tasks
The following table uses these symbols:
+ —The controller supports this task through HP SSA.
– —The controller supports this task through HP SSA only with a registered SAAP license key.
# —The controller supports this task through HP SSA only with a registered HP SmartCache license key.
To identify controller-specific feature support and SAAP requirements, see the controller user guide or the HP
website (http://www.hp.com/go/smartarray).
For more information, see "About SAAP (on page 131)."
Procedure
HP Smart Array
G6 and G7
controllers
HP Smart Array
Gen8 controllers
HP Smart Array
Gen9 controllers
(RAID mode)
HP Smart HBA Gen9
controllers
(HBA Mode)
Activate or delete
license keys
+ + + +
Assign a RAID level
to a logical drive
+ + + –
Assign spare drives
to an array
+ + + –
Configure multiple
systems identically
+
1
+
1
+
1
+
1
Configure a RAID 6
logical drive
– + P-Series only –
Configure a RAID
60 logical drive
– + P-Series only –
Configure RAID 1
(ADM) and RAID 10
(ADM)
– + P-Series only –
Copy the
configuration of one
system to multiple
systems
–
1
+
1
+ +
Create multiple
+ + + –