Over the years the name of the HPE Storage Controller Tool has been changed and so has the location. This means it can also be updated with vSphere Update Manager. The tool is installed as a VIB (vSphere Installable Bundle). The tool is already pre-installed when installing ESXi. In case you are using the HPE VMware ESXi custom images. Here is an overview of supported controllers: The tool supports the most HPE SmartArray controllers over the last 10 to 15 years, for example, the Smart Array P400 was released in 2005 and is still working fine today. It was already available for VMware ESX 4.0 and is still available in VMware ESXi 6.7. So far as I can remember it has been there for ages. The main difference has always been that the HPE tool can perform the operation live without downtime. So far as I know I haven’t seen an identical tool yet from the other server hardware vendors like Cisco, Dell EMC, IBM, and Supermicro. The tooling of HPE is very powerful because you can online manage a VMware ESXi host and migrate for example from a RAID 1 volume to a RAID 10 without downtime or change the read and write cache ratio. I'm totally stumped.I've been pulling my hair out for a week trying to get this controller to work.This time I decided to do a blog post about the HPE Smart Array RAID controllers with their wonderful ssacli tool. Resize the volume, server, once again, fails to be able to initialze the disks after resize/deletion. On the flip side.if I try to install server 2012 on the array (with failure), my Server 2012 installation on the SATA HDD can now see the array.I can't run any benchmarks on the array/drive or delete or add any files to the array.If I try to delete or I got Server 2012 installed on my SATA HDD successfully though.However, I can't initialize the array/disks to be used on Server 2012.Everytime I try to, windows reports with an error "Virtual Disk Manager Windows cannot find the file specified" How can I fix this?I have the latest HP drivers I can't install Server 2012 or Server 2008 on either arrays (RAID O or 1) of the controller even after loading drivers for the controller during setup.After booting from the array, windows simply hangs and the load screen doesnt even come up. I am currently running Server 2012 Evaluation on a SATA HDD as my main operating system.This is after trying to install Server 2012 on 2x 146GB SAS drives attached to an HP Smart Array P410 256MB RAID Controller card.The card has no JBOD options.
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