raid support or not

[pix911]

i have ML370 G4 with out raid card,with two hard desk can i configure raid 1 on this ,remember no raid card , i just connected to motherboard

[Zahar]

It seems that you can't make that.

[pix911]

i want make sure before i order another harddisk to configure mirroring

[Marek Nelec]

In your case you cannot configure a hardware RAID.

[Zahar]

You need to order Smart Array Controller in order to create RAID.

[pix911]

what about DL380 G4 it support raid with installing card

[Zahar]

DL380 G4 comes with one from list:

- SAS (Serial attached SCSI) models include the HP Smart Array P600/256 BBWC Controller.

- SCSI models include the integrated Smart Array 6i Ultra320 Array Controller with optional 128MB of Battery Backed Write Cache.

6i controller supports:
- RAID 5 (Distributed Data Guarding)
- RAID 1+0 (Striping and Mirroring)
- RAID 1 (Mirroring)
- RAID 0 (Stripping)

P600 controller supports:
- RAID 6 (Advanced Data Guarding)
- RAID 5 (Distributed Data Guarding)
- RAID 1+0 (Striping & Mirroring)
- RAID 0 (Striping)

Check model of your server

[pix911]

i mean raid support it will come integrated in mother board or else i have to buy card

in DL380 G4

[Zahar]

Server will be shipped with one of these controllers.

Smart Array 6i Controller - is integrated in motherboard

HP Smart Array P600 Controller - is the 64-bit, PCIX 133-MHz Card (should be added in the order)

[Esteban. ISS]

Well, To be honest you cannot do that.

The only RAID level you can run with this configurations is RAID 0 also known as JBOD (Just a Bounch of Disks), and as it name says is just some disks and the System (OS) will recongnize them alll of them but as a different letter as logical each one.

I recommend you to get a Smart Array controller, HP also has a very cheap ones.

Thanks