I am trying to install the latest release (10.04) of Ubuntu server. Hardware is a brand new HP Proliant DL380 G6 with four SAS hard drives at 146 GB each. I want to run RAID5 or similar with one spare disk.
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Since linuxinstallations are not my best area of knowledge I got stuck.
First attempt I just run the installation, choosed the 440 GB harddrive in the partitioning part of setup for installation and went on. All went fine until setup was done and server rebooted, it then stopped without any message in the beginning then trying to find bootable devices (I.e., it did not find the Ubuntu installation at all I think). So after some reading I decided to go for software raid. I went into disk manager at BIOS (F8) and deleted the array so that I should be presented with four 146 GB disks during setup. At least I thought. In the config application in BIOS the array was deleted and it says: 'No arrays definied'.
This time, at the partitioner during installation, still only one disk shows up. I'm trying to give you a 'screen dump' of the partitioner screen in the code section below.
Since it still tells me the disk is 440 GB (raid5 with 3 units x 146 GB) there are three cause for this:
1 I failed to delete the array in the BIOS setup of raid array
2. Ubunbu installation has automatically created it for me (hardware raid)
3. Ubunbu installation 'guess' I want i RAID5 with 3 units and have already done it for me with software raid.
Please guide me in the right direction.
Regards
Hp Smart Array Configuration
MartinIn a rack-mounted HP ProLiant DL380 G5 server, running Linux (RHEL - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - version 5.9, 64-bit): after a shutdown and power on, one of 4 hard disks of a Logical Drive using 'RAID 1+0' started 'Rebuilding'. I was able to check the status using hpacucli ('HP Array Configuration Utility CLI') After a few hours, the rebuild was completed successfully (the previously defective hard drive was 'physicaldrive 2I:1:2'):
My question is the following: is there a way to see the RAID events history / log of the RAID internal controller (a 'Smart Array P400')? I would like to be able to use 'hpacucli' for that, but I can't find any related command in the Hpacucli Utility for Linux - All Commands Guide
I may try to use other tools for this, if required (but notHP iLO - 'Integrated Lights-Out' because I don't have that access), preferably avoiding any reboot. I have checked '/var/log/messages' but I haven't found any seemingly related entries there.
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The hplog -v command will show you the system event log on servers that have the health management agents installed.