Posts Tagged ‘raid

To control the hardware RAID card in the terminal on Intel Xserves with a hardware RAID card, you need to use the terminal command “raidutil”. To see a list of command line options run the following command in a terminal window:
raidutil -h

To set up a MegaRAID with Raid 5 on an Xserve follow these steps:
1. Boot the server from OSX Server CD
2. Open the Terminal application
3. Type in the command
megaraid -create auto
4. Close the Terminal application
5. Open the Disk Utility application
6. Create a new partition on the new RAID drive with the Disk Utility application
7. Reinstall [...]

If on reboot the server does a consistency check of the RAID, this process can take a very long time. It may take upwards of 8 or more hours. There isn’t really any indication an Xserve is doing a consistency check on reboot. What happens is the Xserve boots to a gray screen or if [...]

It looks like Apple has decided to discontinue its XServe RAID product. When you go to the XServer storage page, there is no sign of the Apple branded XServe RAID product. All that is shown is a RAID hardware product manufactured by Promise Technology. The XServe RAID had a lot of faults so I guess [...]


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