HP Proliant DL 120 G5 Raid

[Ladowny]

Hi

I have configured Raid 1 on my HP Proliant DL 120 G5 machine ( have 2 250Gb disks )S/N CZ192402R7

Bios shows the raid array, so does raid configuration utility but when I boot the OS installer, it still sees 2 drives ( I tried installing VMWare ESXi 4.0 & Debian 5 )

How can I set up hardware raid ?

[wobbe · Accepted solution]

Are you using the onboard sata raid controller?
If you are this not going to work with Debian or VMware. Both operating systems are not supported. perhaps Debian will work if you compile and create your own driver disk from the Adaptec sources. But VMware, no way.

[Ladowny]

So in fact this Raid is not really a hardware raid.

I installed VMWare ESXi version 4 for HP ProLiant servers, but it did throw exception errors. So I disabled the "raid" ;-) controller completly and now it seems to work

[marcus1234]

hmmm.. okay here we go

this is software based raid although there is a integrated chip on board for the raid simulation.

http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/13014_na/13014_na.HTML#Storage

this is what its born with
# Storage Controller:

* Embedded SATA Controller with RAID 0/1 support

but this card as option adds hardware based raid

Smart Array E200 Controller
HP Smart Array E200/128 BBWC Controller
411508-B21

look under the tab from link it will show extra cables are required too and part numbers are all here

HP Storage Controllers



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[Ladowny]

Thanks for this. I inherited this machine and it was supposed to have a raid, so I thought it would be hardware one.

[TTr]

The machine has embedded hardware SATA raid but ESX and Debian ignore it. That's why it sees the two dissk even after you configure the raid LUNs.

http://pubs.vmware.com/vsp40u1_i/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm#href=getting_started/r_esxi_req.html

If you installed windows on this server it would see the raid array.

The embedded sata raid is hardware raid but not a complete independent hardware raid subsystem like the raid cards.

[Roberto Blandino]

On debian you may follow the following steps on an installation console

# modprobe dm-mod
# udpkg -i /cdrom/pool/main/d/dmraid/dmraid-udeb.*.udeb
# dmraid -ay

Read the following url for more information.

http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/SataRaid

On vmware server esxi not yet found!