topic Re: HPACUCLI in Operating System - Linux

HPACUCLI

cedber — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 03:45:10 GMT

Hello,

Can someone tell me if it's possible to "break" a RAID 1 without to touch the machine : only with the tool hpacucli for exemple ...

Thank's

Re: HPACUCLI

Lionel Giraudeau — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 07:36:42 GMT

Hi,

With the few informations you given I think I can answer : "Yes, you can reconfigure raid arrays online."

But what do you mean in "break" ?
Do you want to keep data ang migrating on a standalone disk ? Or just break the mirror to use the two disks elsewhere ?
Give us more informations please.

Regards,
Lionel

Re: HPACUCLI

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 08:43:57 GMT

Shalom,

If the machine has a remote access console, you can boot it and get into the bios without "touching" the machine.

I'm assuming you are talking about hardware raid. Software raid requires interactive access to break it.

SEP

Re: HPACUCLI

cedber — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 09:04:37 GMT

Hi,

I'm sorry : i don't speak a good english (I'm french) ;-)
I have a hardware RAID (RAID 1) and I would like to stop the RAID (2 standalone disks) in order to (for exemple) make modifications on the first disk, boot from the second...
Maybe it's possible to convert it to have a RAID 0 on the first and a RAID 0 on the second ?!?
And all that without datas lost.
I try some manipulations (hpacucli, bios..) but I really think that I will loose datas !

Maybe someone can confirm to me that it's possible or impossible.

Thank's a lot

Re: HPACUCLI

Alan_152 — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 10:38:34 GMT

According to the procedure I use for CLI operations in Windows, I capture a copy of ACUCAPT.INI, modify the file as needed, rename it ACUINPUT.INI, then pipe the new INI file back through the CLI. I'd bet that the Linux ACUCLI version has something very similar. From a command line, do HPACUCLI --? and see what options there are...