Saturday, November 1, 2014

raid - Install Centos 7 or Ubuntu 14.04 on HP DL160 G6



I have recently bought a couple of 2nd hand HP DL160 G6.
I have configured the internal B110i in RAID 1+0 (using four SATA disks).

When I tried to install either Centos 7 or Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on the machines I have seen all the four drives independently rather than the created array.
I used in the past HP DL380 G5 which had a cciss driver that was recognized by either distro (RHEL 5 and Ubuntu 12.04).



How Can I enable the array on the machine (at install time if possible)?



Do I have to provide some custom driver (using dd install)?


Answer



For that particular server, there is a binary driver (hpahcisr, not cciss or hpsa) available for supported operating systems (Windows, RHEL6, SuSE); neither of which you're planning to use.



In the case of Ubuntu or anything other than RHEL5/6, your only options are a different controller or to use software RAID. Ubuntu is totally unsupported on this platform.




Here's HP's compatibility matrix for the ProLiant DL160 G6
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