Dell Disk Array Storage with HP Server Help !!

[Molesy]

Ok guys so this is long shot i know but look for any ideas that would work. 

 

We have a HP DL360 Server and a Dell DiskArray. Yes i know HP Storage units will work best with HP but got a good deal on the Dell ones and would like to see if we can get them to work. 

The issuse is that if we use a HP smart array PCIe card the unit it detected but we are getting extra drives detected. So the HP smart controller should be seeing 80 Drives but it says there are 112 Drivves which is not possible. 

We got a Perc card but the Hp server will not boot and gives us illegal opcode when trying to boot cant even get into BIOS before it does that. 

 

Yes the unit works if we have the controllers in HBA mode but we dont want to have to configure a RAID array on windows. We need the RAID cards to manage it.  Need sometihing stable that we can use for production ideally. happy to use the Smart array or Dell Perc card to get it to work. 

 

Updated the BIOS of the Server in hopes that would allow some compatibility but that has not helped.  Open to suggestions we can try to get it working stable. 

 

 

 

HP DL360 Server

 

Dell Storage Array 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Molesy]

had to geta dell server no way to get it to work with a HP server