[CentOS] HP ProLiant DL380 G5

Thu Aug 21 19:52:55 UTC 2014
John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>

On 8/21/2014 12:43 PM, Matt wrote:
> I have CentOS 6.x installed on a "HP ProLiant DL380 G5" server.  It
> has eight 750GB drives in a hardware RAID6 array.  Its acting as a
> host for a number of OpenVZ containers.
>
> Seems like every time I reboot this server which is not very often it
> sits for hours running a disk check or something on boot.  The server
> is located 200+ miles away so its not very convenient to look at.  Is
> there anyway to tell if it plans to run this or tell it not too?
>
> Right now its reporting one of the drives in array is bad and last
> time it did this a reboot resolved it.

assuming thats a hp smartarray raid controller, use hpacucli to diagnose 
the raid problem.

degraded raid6 is /really/ slow.



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