[CentOS] Getting info on hardware RAID

Sebastian Walter sebastian.walter at fu-berlin.de
Mon Aug 27 20:28:42 UTC 2007


Hi,

one solution which works for sure is to reboot your server, and then 
soon after the Dell logo disappears, a message is shown from the PERC 
(that's how the dell raids are called I think), where you can press 
<ctrl>-a or something like this. Then you are in the raid management 
tool where you get all the detailed infos about your disks as well as 
raid configurations.

Only if rebooting is an option for you, of course.

Regards,
Sebastian

William Warren wrote:
> if they are dells go to support.dell.com and input your system serial 
> numbers.  You'll get the information you need there.
>
> Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists) wrote:
>> On 8/27/07, Mezei Zoltán <mezei.zoltan at telefor.hu> wrote:
>>> Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists) wrote:
>>>> I'm doing an audit of all our servers here (there aren't that many
>>>> maybe around 5-10) and one of the things I'm doing is taking note of
>>>> each server's hardware specs (processor, memory, etc).
>>>>
>>> As a first task for your audit I'd recommend counting your servers :-p
>>
>> Haha. Was too lazy to look at my notes. We currently have 8 servers.
>>
>>
>>> Hardware RAID cards are usually managed by third-party add-on programs.
>>> E.g. HP provides the tool called hpacucli which can determine 
>>> everything
>>> regarding your RAID controller and discs.
>>>
>>> What kind of hardware RAID solution do you have? If you can't 
>>> determine,
>>> the output of lspci might help.
>>
>> It's a Dell 2550 PowerEdge server.
>>
>> Below is the result of lspci:
>>
>> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Broadcom CNB20HE Host Bridge (rev 23)
>> 00:00.1 Host bridge: Broadcom CNB20HE Host Bridge (rev 01)
>> 00:00.2 Host bridge: Broadcom CNB20HE Host Bridge (rev 01)
>> 00:00.3 Host bridge: Broadcom CNB20HE Host Bridge (rev 01)
>> 00:0e.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27)
>> 00:0f.0 ISA bridge: Broadcom OSB4 South Bridge (rev 50)
>> 00:0f.1 IDE interface: Broadcom OSB4 IDE Controller
>> 00:0f.2 USB Controller: Broadcom OSB4/CSB5 OHCI USB Controller (rev 04)
>> 01:08.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5700
>> Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
>> 02:02.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 80960RM [i960RM Bridge] (rev 01)
>> 02:02.1 RAID bus controller: Dell PowerEdge Expandable RAID Controller
>> 3/Di (rev 01)
>> 02:04.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro
>> 100] (rev 08)
>>
>>
>




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