TenTenths |
04-15-2016 03:05 AM |
If you have a hardware RAID controller then you intercept this during the startup sequence (F8 from memory) and you can then configure the RAID Controller through the on-screen interface.
smartstart is a bootable DVD that provides a logical step-by-step setup of the hardware, raid controller and initial OS installation. To be honest, haven't used it in years, from power-on / reboot I just use the onboard software on the RAID card.
Once you've partitioned your drives they will be presented to the OS as though they were a single regular drive. As the hardware RAID controller is handing all the RAID "stuff" the OS doesn't need to be RAID aware or have any other specific modules/software installed.
Here we generally use a mix of disks, so we'll have something like 2x146Gb mirrored for /boot and swap and then a bunch of additional disks in RAID 5/6/10/50 for /
There's also HP System Management Homepage (and related software) that you could install on your server which can also provide a web-based interface to the RAID controller.
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