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HP Smart Storage Admin CLI (`ssacli`) installation and usage on Proxmox PVE (6.x)

Why use HP Smart Storage Admin CLI?

You can use ssacli (smart storage administrator command line interface) tool to manage any of supported HP Smart Array Controllers in your Proxmox host without need to reboot your server to access Smart Storage Administrator in BIOS. That means no host downtime when managing your storage.

CLI is not as convenient as GUI interface provided by BIOS or desktop utilities, but still allows you to fully manage your controller, physical disks and logical drives on the fly with no Proxmox host downtime.

ssacli replaces older hpssacli, but shares the same syntax and adds support for newer servers and controllers.

Installation

Cloud images in Proxmox

A script which automates these steps for multiple distros incl. CoreOS, CentOS, Arch and ALpine

create-cloud-template.sh

Steps for creating an Ubuntu 18.04 cloud template

Using a ready-to-use Ubuntu image

	# This is a SystemD unit file for the ScPrime daemon
	# To configure:
	# - Update the user and group that the service will run as (User & Group below)
	# - Ensure that the spd and spc binaries are in /var/opt/scprime/latest-version/ and is named spd
	# (or edit the ExecStart and ExecStop lines below to reflect the name and location of your binary)
	# - Ensure that you've set SCPRIME_WALLET_PASSWORD to your wallet password)
	#
	# To use:
	# - Place this file in /etc/systemd/system/ or wherever your SystemD unit files are stored
	# - Run systemctl daemon-reload