I pulled two HP Proliant DL380 G5 servers out of the storage room, installed eight gigs of memory and filled the drive bays with a mix of 72 and 146 gigabyte drives.

I find the simplest and easiest is to NOT use the disc for setting up the array (assuming you have the standard p200i controller on the G5).

During the boot up, wait for the screen to say press F8 to configure arrays (or something very close to this.its right after the ILO-2 configuration message).

Press F8 when prompted (may take a couple tries to nail it), and once youre in, its very straightforward (read intuitive) from there.

Ive built dozens of servers without it, mostly RAID10, some RAID5.

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Its a used machine.

My understanding is it has 2 each 146 gig drives and 6 each 72 gig drives.

My plan is to mirror the 2 146 gig drives and make the 6 each 72 gig drives into a RAID array.

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May be you all have better ideas on how to configure the drives.

You wont really know until you get the hardware, but I suspect its just the single controller (p200i), with a dual RAID configuration (the 2x146 are RAID1 and for the OS, and the 6x72 are RAID5 for filesdata storage).

Thats also how I would set up those drives, although I typically like to have a 3rd 146 as a hot spare on the OS.depends on the application really, but most times thats what I do.

But I reserve the right to be wrong.;-) Cheers, DD.

Here is a long story about the problems I encountered trying to build a quick lab environment at the office.

For a little background, back in the days of Compaq Proliant servers and the early days following the HP merger, I knew this hardware pretty well.

But anything after the G2 era, my focus was not on the server hardware, but on the applications and storage.

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