Determining if Battery Backed Write Cache is installed

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:27:42 +0000

I wanted to know if a certain server had a Battery Backed Write Cache module (BBWC) on it's array controller.

I suspected it did not, but I had to be sure. Since this server was running production I couldn't open (Visual Inspection) or reboot it.

The server didn't have Insight Agents installed so I couldn't query it via iLO or the Insight Agents webpage either.

I knew that when you do a full install of the array controller bundled software it comes with a commandline tool, hpacucli.exe.

HP Smart Array controller previous lockup code 0xAB

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 11:47:51 +0000

I ran into an error when I was upgrading hardware on an HP BL460c G6 Blade.

After placing 2 new (larger) hard drives the Array Configuration would hang after saving the configuration (It just kept blinking "Saving Configuration." forever.

Hewlett-Packard on Remko's Blog

Determining if Battery Backed Write Cache is installed

HP Smart Array controller previous lockup code 0xAB