HP Smart Array Advanced Pack 8
HP Smart Array Advanced Pack
About SAAP
SAAP is a collection of additional and advanced controller features embedded in the firmware of select
Smart Array controllers.
To access SAAP features, activate the software with a registered license key. (SAAP 1.0 is standard on the
HP Smart Array P812 Controller.)
SAAP 1.0 provides the following features:
•
RAID 6 (ADG)
•
RAID 60 (ADG)
•
Advanced Capacity Expansion
•
Mirror splitting and recombining in offline mode
•
Drive Erase
•
Performance optimization for video on demand
•
Dual domain
SAAP 2.0 includes all v1.0 features and also provides the following additional features:
•
RAID 1 (ADM)
•
RAID 10 (ADM)
•
Capability for moving and deleting individual LUNs
To access SAAP features, you must purchase a license key from HP. To obtain a license key, see the SAAP
product page on the HP website (
http://www.hp.com/go/SAAP
).
To install the license key and activate SAAP, use one of the following methods:
•
Installing a license key with ORCA (on page
12
)
•
Installing a license key with ACU (on page
44
)
•
Installing a license key with ACU CLI ("
Entering or deleting a license key
" on page
60
)
•
Installing a license key with ACU Scripting ("
LicenseKey, DeleteLicenseKey
" on page
79
)
Some SAAP features are required for advanced configuration tasks in ACU. For a list of these tasks, see
"Support for advanced configuration tasks (on page
6
)."
Required hardware
For a list of Smart Array controllers that support SAAP, see the SAAP product page on the HP website
(
http://www.hp.com/go/SAAP
).
To support some controller features, the controller may also require a hardware configuration that includes
the following cache (array accelerator) options:
