HPE RAID Software for Debian/Ubuntu Systems

Documentation on HPE's official website about installing RAID card utilities is scarce. This post summarized commands from various corners of the internet.

Installation

All commands need root privileges.

Install HPE GPG Key

apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys C208ADDE26C2B797

Add HPE APT source

Depending on your Ubuntu/Debian version, you may want to change "bionic" to "jammy", "buster", etc.

echo "deb http://downloads.linux.hpe.com/SDR/repo/mcp bionic/current non-free" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/hpe.list
apt-get update

Download ssa utilities

apt-get install ssa ssacli ssaducli

Using SSA Utility

Show disk config and status

ssacli ctrl all show config

Show controller status

ssacli ctrl all show status

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