determine hardware raid

[Wayne Betts]

Miscellaneous thoughts:

If you haven't done it already, get some basic info about the controller from "lspci", so you'll
have a chance of finding something relevant with Google.

Dell does have some RAID utilities for various PERC controllers.  "aacraid" and "afacli" might be
useful terms to search for on Google, iirc.

Dell has OpenManage Server Assistant or something like that came with a bunch of their PowerEdge
systems.  I never much liked it but did manage to get some basic monitoring going using some of the
tools that are part of it.

Over the last few years I've managed to get some useful information on this subject starting here:

http://linux.dell.com/storage.shtml


-Wayne Betts

john maclean wrote:
> Ah, that's handy to know! Anything similar for Dells?
> 
> 2009/2/4 Geofrey Rainey <Geofrey.Rainey at tvnz.co.nz>:
>> If you have an HP server and the "HP Proliant Support Pack" installed,
>> you can query and
>> Configure the RAID card with the command: hpacucli (hp array
>> configuration utility
>> command line interface).
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
>> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of john maclean
>> Sent: Thursday, 5 February 2009 11:33 a.m.
>> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
>> Subject: Re: determine hardware raid
>>
>> So am I right in thinking that the -only- way to do this results in
>> server downtime? I know how to get to a sever's RAID configurations.
>> Looks like dmidecode wont be able to help either.
>>
>> Thanks for the reply.
>>
>>
>>
>> 2009/2/4 Geofrey Rainey <Geofrey.Rainey at tvnz.co.nz>:
>>> Yes, you can reboot the server and there will be a BIOS interface for
>>> the RAID Card, in here it will list all the details of your RAID
>>> configuration.
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
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>>> Sent: Thursday, 5 February 2009 9:38 a.m.
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>>> Subject: determine hardware raid
>>>
>>> Chaps,
>>>
>>> Is there a way to determine hardware RAID and the type used? I know
>>> that mdadm is available for software RAID. Please do tell me if this
>>> is the wrong list and I'll move along ;-)
>>>
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