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HP ML350e G8 Raid Controller P222, 4x SAS 1TB Raid 5, DVD SLES SP1

During installation of Novell SUSE Linux sles11 sp1 while SUSE is checking components I get an error that no hard disks are available. Funny because it installs the partition and reboots and copies files to the raid drive during intelligent provisioning. I used the F10 and choose SUSE Linux OS and disc install. Raid 5, 4 sas drives 1TB in one logical volume on a HP P222 raid controller. After reboot DVD sles11 disk installs components and comes up to the install page. Click next a couple of times and it checks devices and etc and error pops up. Would love video or detailed instructions to install raid drives or etc.

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Current array is 2.7TB. Let me try and see.

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Creating a small raid 0 of 333GB made no difference. As I see now dlethe predicted. I'm looking at the P222 drivers, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (AMD64/EM64T).

* RECOMMENDED * HP ProLiant Smart Array Controller (AMD64/EM64T) Driver for SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 11 (AMD64/EM64T) (American, International) (multi-part download)
3.4.2-4 10 Sep 2013
3.2.0-3 19 Feb 2013

hpsa-kmp-default-3.4.2-4.sles11sp1.x86_64.rpm       0.047
hpsa-kmp-default-3.4.2-4.sles11sp2.x86_64.rpm       0.047
hpsa-kmp-default-3.4.2-4.sles11sp3.x86_64.rpm       0.047
hpsa-kmp-xen-3.4.2-4.sles11sp1.x86_64.rpm       0.047
hpsa-kmp-xen-3.4.2-4.sles11sp2.x86_64.rpm       0.047
hpsa-kmp-xen-3.4.2-4.sles11sp3.x86_64.rpm       0.047

From the Novell site it appears mine is sles11sp1, surprised they don't have me download sp2 or sp3, curious way?

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Description Current version Size (MB) Previous version Download
* RECOMMENDED * Supplemental Update / Online ROM Flash Component for Linux - Smart Array P220i, P222, P420i, P420, P421, P721m, and P822 (American) 4.68 10 Sep 2013
3.54 8 May 2013 Obtain software
* RECOMMENDED * Supplemental Update / Online ROM Flash Component for Linux – HP Gen8 Server Backplane Expander Firmware for HP Smart Array Controllers and HP HBA Controllers

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Andyalder:

Original download: SLES-11-SP1-DVD-x86_64-GM-DVD1.iso 2.8 GB (3036372992)
Current download: SLES-11-SP2-DVD-x86_64-GM-DVD1.iso 3.0 GB (3324467200)

Well I found this before I read your reply but it appears you are correct. I had already started downloading the SP2 so I can give it a try from the Novell site.

See the website I found earlier:

http://h20565.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/template.PAGE/public/psi/swdHome/?sp4ts.oid=5194887&spf_p.tpst=swdMain&spf_p.prp_swdMain=wsrp-navigationalState%3DswEnvOID%253D4049%257CswLang%253D%257Caction%253DlistDriver&javax.portlet.begCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken&javax.portlet.endCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken#Firmware%20-%20SAS%20Storage%20Disk

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SLES-11-SP2-DVD-x86_64-GM-DVD1.iso 3.0 GB (3324467200) solved the issue installed like a champ.

I have 4 1TB drives, should I delete the array and just go back to a 4 drive raid 5 or should I install the SUSE on the 1TB drive by itself without any raid protection and use the other 3 drives for my raid 5.

I'm tempted to buy two smaller drives and do a raid 1 for the OS.

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I deleted the Array and went back to the 4 disk Raid 5 and reinstalled and everything went well. Now it is back to Novell and the OES partitioning and setup. Thanks guys.
By the way there is a little bug in the CDROM detection in the G8 Intelligent Provisioning. Sometimes you have to click four or more times before it will find and mount the CDROM drive. It does this with the internal SATA and also with the external USB. It also says the eth0 does not detect a connection to the network cable but if you ignore the error and continue it finds it and setups.

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I wiped out the Raid 5 and create two 1+0 200GB logical drives and one Max drive.

Please look at the photo and advise of any other changes I should make. Several options listed on the right in the ACU interface.
Raid-G8-4x1TB-drives.JPG

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I'm going to let the P222 Raid controller handle the Raid(paid $500 for this fancy card with battery backup write back cache) but it surprises me it does not give me the option for Raid 10, but instead only 0, 1, 1+0, 5, 6(ADM). I would rather use Raid 10 instead of Raid 1+0.

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Correct, but the whole reason for Raid is to protect the data and redundancy and 10 is a little bit better than 1+0. But unless I lose two or more drives at once there is really not much difference. The reason I was using four drives instead of 3 for Raid 5 when I ordered this server was because I have had bad experiences with Raid 5 when you drop back to two drives until the hot spare kicks in. My server started rebooting and acting crazy.

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So in summary I should use Raid 6? It was the recommended default on this P222 controller.

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P222:
Increased performance, scalability and data protection, with reduced initial setup time
Up to 3x performance improvement over past generation, using DDR3-1333 cache memory
Greater scalability for explosive growth with up to 4 internal; 100 drives external
Long term data retention with 512MB flash back write cache (FBWC) offered as a standard feature
Support for RAID 0/1, 10, 5, 50, and RAID 6 and 60 with additional advanced features are upgradable by Smart Array Advanced Pack 2.0
New predictive spare activation for improved rebuild and maximized uptime

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