Raid 5 + Hotspare Hardware Configuration

[Andy Dane]

Has anyone successfully used RDP to forcibly configure a 6 disk system as a single Raid 5 array on 5 disks and a hotspare on the 6th?

We want to use R5+HSP instead of the automatic ADG or R5 on all disks.

[Kim Sørensen]

No can't say that I have. ;o)
But I would do the following:

1. Do the RAID configuration manually
2. Do a capture of the RAID config using the "Read ProLiant ML/DL/BL Array Configuration" job
3. Examine the capture.ini file for see how its done
4. Use the new capture.ini to deploy on the servers using the "Write ProLiant ML/DL/BL Array Configuration" job.

If it works, I would rename the capture.ini to a more saying name and even make a new job for this.

Regards
Kim

[Adrian Clint_1]

From the ACU Manual - pages 45/51
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/CoreRedirect.jsp?targetPage=http%3A%2F%2Fh200002.www2.hp.com%2Fbc%2Fdocs%2Fsupport%2FSupportManual%2Fc00142272%2Fc00142272.pdf

It looks like:

Onlinespare = port:ID

in the Array section.

There's an existing R5 ini in the array config jobs in RDP 2.1