On Wednesday 28 January 2009, John Doe wrote:
From: Peter Kjellstrom cap@nsc.liu.se
If it does raid6 then you have a p400 or p800 controller, right? If so then hpacucli or similar can easily give you a small logical drive for the OS and then a large one for data.
Yes, that's the plan but, the thing is to be able to run the utilities... I need either to make a live CD with the HP tools installed, or a "temporary OS with the tools... First try will be to create a RAID6 on 3 disks (=1 TB, so no grub problems), install the OS, run HP ACU, extend the RAID to the 12 disks, and create the logical disks... If first try fails, second try would be to use a temporary USB disk to install a temporary OS.
This sounds much better to me. Invest 30 min. and install a centos-5 to a 4G usb-stick. Put hpacucli and hpaducli on it and then you can configure, manage and diagnose any server you want.
I even thought of Installing the P800 in a model 3xx, while leaving the disks in the DL180 (if cable length permits it), and boot with SmartStart on the 3xx... ^_^ As for the logical disks sizes, we would go with something like 5 disks of 1.9TB. So, just classic msdos partitions. One thing is for sure, HP tries really hard to make it complicated...
Why would you make 5 logical drives? Why use partition tables?
I think hpacucli works fine but it sure would have been nice to be able to create flexible logical drives in the smartarray bios.
/Peter