RE: RE: RE: RHEL4 and HP Proliant server

I can't say for sure, but I don't think you can dynamically build any
hardware raid stuff through default build process, HP or otherwise. I'm
not sure about other RAID controllers, but it seems like HP decided not
to pass bare hard drives through the controller, preferring to force you
to set up RAID devices instead. To some extend this makes sense, but it
can be annoying if you're not familiar with it.

To set up the logical drives, you should be able to power on the system
and, at some point, it will be initializing the SmartArray controller.
I forget exactly at what point you would need to hit F8 to get into the
configuration utility though. Once in the utility you just need to
create a logical drive.

If you have the time, inclination, etc, you could add HP's array tools
to the boot media and then use them in a %pre script via kickstart to
build a logical disk automatically(hmm..something to think about more)
but then you have to worry about manipulating the boot media and the
ramdisk, etc. It ends up being potentially very complicated especially
if you are using multiple types of hardware with different types of RAID
controllers. It also might be too much work if there are only a few
machines.

Here, we manually set up the logical drives just because we decided that
it was too much work for not enough gain to figure out how to do it
automatically.

Maarten Broekman
Email: maarten.broekman@xxxxxxx

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And the guy here, Scott, responds:

Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:25:47 -0400
From: "ELLIS, SCOTT, ATTSI" <se816g@xxxxxxx>

I believe we are g5 dl380. Also, I noted the closest driver on the CD
which
I noticed shared the same cciss reference and tried that. I proceeded
to
install the driver ... It did in fact come back and say no hard drives
found... So the comments are on to something. So, why doesn't the
redhat
linux install prompt you to somehow build or create or otherwise the
log /
phy hard drives before proceeding ??

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---- Original message ----
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:05:47 -0400
From: "Broekman, Maarten" <Maarten.Broekman@xxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: RHEL4 and HP Proliant server
To: "General Red Hat Linux discussion list" <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx>

What generation of DL380? Which RHEL4 update? We have DL380s here
(G2,
G3, G4) and we can build off the boot CD without any problems.

Also, you need to make sure that you've created a logical drive on the
hardware raid. If there are no logical drives on the hardware raid
then
there are 'technically' no hard drives. If you want to use LVM, then
you would have to create each hard drive as it's own logical drive,
though I'm not sure why you want to do that.

As Jeremy mentioned, it's definitely a cpqarray or cciss driver that
you're going to end up using, but that should be on the CDs already.

Maarten Broekman
Email: maarten.broekman@xxxxxxx

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Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 2:57 PM
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Subject: Re: RHEL4 and HP Proliant server

On 10/23/07, m.roth2006@xxxxxxx <m.roth2006@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Ok, I've got a guy here - he's really a network guy, and he's trying
to put RHEL4 on a Proliant server, a DL380, I believe. It's *all*
hardware RAID, and the std. RHEL4 CDs can't id the h/d. He's tried d/l
a
package from HP, but that unzips to a file.dd, which I'm thinking
needs
to be dd'd to something....

Anyone have any ideas where he needs to go?

You'll most likely need either the cpqarray or cciss drivers. I have
a pair of DL580's that are similar in hardware and that's the modules
needed for RHEL4 to see the (hardware RAID) volumes.

The file.dd is probably a floppy disk image, which can be written to a
floppy with "dd if=file.dd of=/dev/fd0". The drivers on that floppy
can then be loaded during the installation process.

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