HP ARRAY CONFIGURATION UTILITY cli – hpacucli command examples

hpacucli ------> what is it ? Don't worry, here it explains with example.

HP A{rray} C{onfiguration} U{tility} Command Line Interface .


hpacucli is used to create ,delete and repair the logical drives and physical drives on the smart array controllers on HP Servers.


Scenario ex :
Whenever there is a requirement to increase the disk size in your local disk on the server, it is really very helpful to create a disk using hpacucli via command line. It is really time saving in my experience, since I found with GUI , it takes more time and some times I got compatibility issues with browsers.

The given example here is for a HP ProLiant BL620c G7 server , You can verify this using dmidecode command.

 Make sure we have the below rpm  installed , install it and verify

Type hpacucli, it gives ‘=>’ , type the commands here

To display the controller status, type as below

Note:It has 2 Physical drives as shown above and both are in use

1.      View the controller status only

1.      View the drive status

      


To view the individual drive status for the 2 below drives.