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RAID solution with hardware assistance. RAID parity calculations can be performed by either the main CPU, or by a separate processor on the RAID controller card.

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How to determine the real disk size of an hardware RAID?

I have a Fujitsu Primergy TX200 S3 server running Win Server 2003 R2 SP2. It has hardware-RAID using an LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS 8300XLP RAID Controller. I simply want to find the size of each disk in the RAID array. How can I find this…
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installing microsoft server 2008 on RAID drive

Using RAID 1 on a HP G165 G5 server and trying to install windows server 2008, however right at the install screen the windows installation wont find any hard drives. Ive tried installing HP 4/8 Internal Port SAS HBA with RAID and SCxxGe series HBA…
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Software RAID to hardware RAID, can it be done?

Can it be done ... well. (For the record, I did not set this server up.) In my server there are 4 disks. 3 of them are in a software RAID5, and 1 has the OS installed. I want to buy a RAID controller, 4 new HDs and set up a hardware RAID5. If…
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How to (hardware) RAID 10 on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS with 4 drives and motherboard with RAID contoller

I have 4 500GB hard drives. I set up a RAID 10 in BIOS, much like shown here: http://www.supermicro.com/manuals/other/RAID_SATA_ESB2.pdf Then I followed these…
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Windows Server 2008 Core R2 Raid status

I would like to ask if there is a way how to figure out the RAID status on a running W2008SR2 Core machine. I have ICH8R Intel Controller. RaidConfig utility from intel doesnt work just like CMDTool2. RaidPart says "Unable to find any VDS hardware…
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How do I get Busybox Linux/ESXi 4U1 to recognized expanded RAID 5 disk array?

I'm in the process of upgrading a pair of physical servers to 3 virtual machines. The 2 physical boxes (HP DL380 G5 with Smart Array P400 disk controller) will run VMware ESXi 4 update 1. Each physical machine has 8 72GB drives originally…
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Raid1, one disk displaying SMART errors:

I have a HP Pavillion machine, and I'm using the RAID controller built into the motherboard (H-RS880-uATX, some consumer grade RAID controller, not sure who). I got a slew of event log errors from the AMD RAID API the other night. I ran a SMART test…
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Which hardware RAID 5+ cards have a true separation between Host CPU and controller CPU ops?

For example, Windows talks with the 3Ware card as if it were a hard drive, and the 3Ware card takes care of writing content to the raid as an asynchronous process. This frees up the CPU from disk operations. Including 3Ware, what Server raid cards…
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New hard disks for Xserve RAID

We have an Xserve in our office: MAC OSX 10.4 2 X 2Ghz Dual Core Xeon 2GB RAM It has 4x250GB drives in it and we need to expand. What I am wondering is: Are we limited to what sort of drives we put in the RAID? (ie do they have to be the same…
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RAID Planning for server

I'm trying to do some RAID planning, and the only RAID systems I've worked with in RAID-1. I'm going to be setting up a RAID-10 server. Could it make sense to have the primary hard drive with a 150GB Velo. Raptor 10K Disk, with the others in the…
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System x3650 Hard Drive Upgrade

I have a IBM System x3650 Server with 6 Storage Bays (6 Drives). I am planning / have to change 2 hard drives. Do they have to be some sort of specific drives or can I just order 10K SAS 750 or 500GB Hard Drives ? I have tried looking up on IBM.…
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How to identify RAID (5 or 6) controllers that allow dynamic resize of the array

I'm building a server with a RAID5 array, based on a hardware controller. I want to be able to later add additional disks and have the array rebalance across all of the disks, enlarging the usable size. I also want to be able to later upgrade to…
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Show hard drive setup in linux

I am trying to determine this remote server's hard drive setup including RAID. A developer who was here before me had set it up and I'm trying to determine the procedure for getting things back online if there was a problem. The first step in that…
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Raid Reconfiguration

We have a Hp DL 380 G6 server. we added extra hard drives and configured them using raid 5. we restarted the server and now we cannot see the drives with the os and the server will not load. Is there a way to rebuild the raid?
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Removing a HDD from a RAID 1 SATA HDD will it still work?

I have a a Proliant ML 110 G5 server with an Embeded SATA controller running RAID 1 on two 160 GB drives. I had an issue with my CentOS Installation and after running e2fsck (via Ubuntu Pendrive) y booted into a system that was not recognizing my…
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