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HP Microserver Gen 10 Plus Raid (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by shuttleu@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

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Hi,

I always used to use Home Server Show whenever I had issues, but that site seems to have gone unfortunately. So thought I'd try here.

I've just upgraded from a Microserver Gen 8 to a Gen 10 Plus and was hoping I could take my P420 across and save the cost of a new raid card.
Putting the server in legacy boot comes up with the P420 initialisation for a couple minutes, then it fails and refuses to boot. I also dont appear to have any way of booting into the raid configuration utility to see what's happening.

My question is, is there any way of making the P420 work with the Gen 10 Plus and have the ability to configure the raid, or am I going to have to upgrade to a newer raid card, such as the E208i-p or p408i-p.

If I do have to upgrade, will it be a simple in place upgrade, or am I going to have to recreate the array and restore all the data?

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[–] kY2iB3yH0mN8wI2h@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I have also had issues with Microservers and even HP PCI cards. Can you in BIOS disable firmware on the PCI slot? Dont remember if the microserver bios have that feature.

[–] unixuser011@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't think that the P420 is supported on the newer microservers, I remember from HPs manual, the only listed raid controller was the p408i-p. Doesn't mean that the older ones aren't supported, but HP doesn't officially support them

[–] shuttleu@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

This was my thought, although it's not officially supported, I was hoping it would still work, I just wouldn't have all the features.

As an update, I've managed to get it working by having the bios in legacy mode rather than UEFI, I just now have a power consumption issue to deal with.