topic Re: Raid Configuration in Disk Enclosures

Raid Configuration

Fadia Almarei — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:26:57 GMT

Dear All

i have get HP Core IO SAS Controller RAID 1
in my servers rx6600 deleviry .
is this suffecient to do ghardware Raid configuration for my server i have 6 disks and i want to do each two mirror. if yes kindly send me how to do this and the OS is not installed on the server

Re: Raid Configuration

Torsten. — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:37:36 GMT

Here is the manual:

http://docs.hp.com/en/J6369-90070/index.html

see chapter 3
3 Configuring the Controller Offline

The controller can mirror 2 pairs of disks + a global hot spare.

Re: Raid Configuration

Fadia Almarei — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 07:29:53 GMT

thanks for the replay

but i face aproblem ; when i use devcfg , when i try to select a device to be primary or secondary i can not do it , i have no choices , what should i do ?

Re: Raid Configuration

Fadia Almarei — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:43:23 GMT

if i need to create a mirror for the third pair of disk and not use them as hot spare ,how can i do it ?

Re: Raid Configuration

Torsten. — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:06:24 GMT

Only 2 pairs are possible. You can manage all other disk with LVM (or with an optional RAID controller as a replacement for the integrated).