SEP (Vendor ID PMCSIERA, Model SRC 8圆G) 250 (WWID: 50123456789ABCED)Īs you can see here, we have, as expected, four configured physical drives in a RAID 10 array and four unconfigured drives which we will now need to assign to a second RAID 10 array. Physicaldrive 2I:1:8 (port 2I:box 1:bay 8, SAS, 146 GB, OK) Physicaldrive 2I:1:7 (port 2I:box 1:bay 7, SAS, 146 GB, OK) Physicaldrive 2I:1:6 (port 2I:box 1:bay 6, SAS, 146 GB, OK)

Physicaldrive 2I:1:5 (port 2I:box 1:bay 5, SAS, 146 GB, OK) Physicaldrive 1I:1:4 (port 1I:box 1:bay 4, SAS, 72 GB, OK) Physicaldrive 1I:1:3 (port 1I:box 1:bay 3, SAS, 72 GB, OK) Physicaldrive 1I:1:2 (port 1I:box 1:bay 2, SAS, 72 GB, OK) Physicaldrive 1I:1:1 (port 1I:box 1:bay 1, SAS, 72 GB, OK) Four are previously populated and configured (this is an existing production server) and the remaining four have just had drives inserted into their hot swap bays live so we will need to verify here that their details are correct. In our example we have a server with eight available drive bays. Once in the utility we will run “ctrl all show config” to get an overview of the status of our array. Commands entered at the “=>” prompt are within the hpacucli utility rather than in our normal shell. The hpacucli utility is generally used interactively. The SmartArray management utility, hpacucli, is needed and is not a standard component of any Linux distro so if you are missing it you will need to acquire it from HP in order to manage your hardware. We will be doing this from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 Tikanga but, again, the commands are very generic and will apply across many Linux versions.

We will be using HP’s hpacucli utility to manage the array from the command line. The server in question is an HP Proliant D元80 G6 with a SmartArray P410i RAID controller but these direction should apply to any SmartArray controller. In this real world example post I am going to deal with the every day administration task of adding four new hard drives to an existing, and running, production server, configuring them into an array, adding them to LVM management, adding a file system and mounting that filesystem.

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