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Dl380 Raid Bios notes

Configuring the disks using the raid controller bios

... use some words here ... "Also reattach the images"

steve:~ don$ ssh -p 22222 feurig@vpn.suspectdevices.com
User:feurig logged-in to kb2018.suspectdevices.com(192.168.31.119 / FE80::9E8E:99FF:FE0C:BAD8)
iLO 3 Advanced for BladeSystem 1.88 at  Jul 13 2016
Server Name: kb2018
Server Power: On

hpiLO-> vsp

Virtual Serial Port Active: COM2

Starting virtual serial port.
Press 'ESC (' to return to the CLI Session.

root@kb2018:~# fdisk -l|grep Disk\ \/
Disk /dev/loop0: 86.9 MiB, 91099136 bytes, 177928 sectors
Disk /dev/loop1: 87.9 MiB, 92164096 bytes, 180008 sectors
Disk /dev/loop2: 63.4 MiB, 66486272 bytes, 129856 sectors
Disk /dev/sda: 136.7 GiB, 146778685440 bytes, 286677120 sectors

root@kb2018:~# reboot
[  OK  ] Stopped Stop ureadahead data collection 45s after completed          Stopping Session 98 of user feurig.
         Stopping Availability of block devices...
 ...

[  OK  ] Reached target Shutdown.
[  OK  ] Reached target Final Step.
         Starting Reboot...
[292357.910620] reboot: Restarting system

After several seconds you will see a text based bios screen [[Image(CaptiveRaidController:ILo3SSHConsoleBooting.png)]] After the network controller is started the raid controller will give you a chance to configure it. _PRESS F8 NOW!! _ \ [[Image(CaptiveRaidController:PressF8NOW.png)]]

If you miss it you will have to escape back to the ILO3 and power cycle the machine. (This is ok because the disks are not active until the machine actually boots)

Booting from Hard Drive C: 
<ESC> (
hpiLO-> power off hard

status=0
status_tag=COMMAND COMPLETED
Wed Sep 26 15:31:57 2018



Forcing server power off .......
Please wait 6 seconds for this operation to complete.



hpiLO-> power

status=0
status_tag=COMMAND COMPLETED
Wed Sep 26 15:32:04 2018



power: server power is currently: Off


hpiLO-> power on

status=0
status_tag=COMMAND COMPLETED
Wed Sep 26 15:32:21 2018



Server powering on .......



hpiLO-> vsp

Virtual Serial Port Active: COM2

Starting virtual serial port.
Press 'ESC (' to return to the CLI Session.

Once in the raid controller bios you will get a main menu.

[[Image(CaptiveRaidController:ViewLogicalDrive.png)]]

If you select view logical drives will see that the first two disks are combined into a mirrored pair and that there are no other drives defined.

So we select "Create Logical Drive". Which gives us the following screen.

[[Image(CaptiveRaidController:CreateLogicalDriveDefaults.png)]]

Notice that the defaults are to create a raid 1+0 array with the first two matching disks. Deselecting either disk (down arrow, spacebar) will cause the raid configuration to automatically drop to RAID 0

Press Enter when finished. The next screen will ask you to verify the creation

Repeat this for each remaining disk.

When you are finished you can view the logical drives. [[Image(CaptiveRaidController:RaidConfFinished.png)]]

The key will walk you back out so you can continue to boot.

success

root@kb2018:~# fdisk -l|grep Disk\ \/
Disk /dev/loop0: 86.9 MiB, 91099136 bytes, 177928 sectors
Disk /dev/loop1: 87.9 MiB, 92164096 bytes, 180008 sectors
Disk /dev/loop2: 63.4 MiB, 66486272 bytes, 129856 sectors
Disk /dev/sda: 136.7 GiB, 146778685440 bytes, 286677120 sectors
Disk /dev/sdb: 223.6 GiB, 240021504000 bytes, 468792000 sectors
Disk /dev/sdc: 223.6 GiB, 240021504000 bytes, 468792000 sectors
Disk /dev/sdd: 279.4 GiB, 299966445568 bytes, 585871964 sectors
Disk /dev/sde: 279.4 GiB, 299966445568 bytes, 585871964 sectors
root@kb2018:~#