Configure HP Proliant DL360p - DL 380p Gen8 RAID
- 1. Configure HP Proliant DL360p/DL380p Gen8 RAID A new deliviered HP Server System is already preconfigured with a RAID setup (if more than one harddisks are installed). To monitor the Mirroring RAID status (Software RAID1) by Airlock, it is neccessary to reconfigure the Hardware RAID configuration. The RAID Controller P420i gives the choice of wizard driven configuration called “HP Array Configuration Utility” (press F5 at Controller BIOS message) and simple RAID configuration called “Option ROM Configuration for Arrays Utility” (Press F8 at Controller BIOS message). We recommend to select “Option ROM Configuration for Arrays Utility”. It will start much faster and – to configure single logical Disks – more easy to use. The following description is for 2 physical/logical drives only. We do not support more than 2 logical drives. 1. Delete every RAID configuration (Menu: Delete Logical Drive). 2. Create a single array with the first disk (RAID0). 3. Create a single array with the second disk (RAID0). 4. Select “View Logical Drive” to see the current configuration. 5. Now quit the configuration tool. The updated message, that now 2 logical drives are detected, should appear. 6. Now install Airlock with mirroring. After the successfull installation of Airlock it is possible to see the monitoring status of the RAID configuration. Monitoring of RAID status is also enabled. If it is required to do the disk configuration with the “HP Array Configuration Utility”, be sure creating the logical drives after creating the arrays. If not, the RAID controller creates a single array and put all drives in the same array. Then, in the RAID Controller
- 2. BIOS message, only one logical drive is displayed again.