Drives

In the default configuration, your server has two hard disks, configured as RAID 1, on which the operating system is installed. Any additional hard disks are not configured automatically - this must be done using configuration tools:

Installation RAID management tool

To configure the RAID, you will need to use a proprietary HPE tool, which is available on our mirror.

wget https://mirror.plusserver.com/hp-mcp/debian/pool/non-free/ssacli-6.45-8.0_amd64.deb -O ssacli.deb
dpkg -i ssacli.deb

for Ubuntu

wget https://mirror.plusserver.com/hp-mcp/ubuntu/pool/non-free/ssacli-6.45-8.0_amd64.deb -O ssacli.deb
dpkg -i ssacli.deb

Configure RAID

To configure the RAID, the identifier of the unassigned SSDs must be determined. This is done using the command ssacli ctrl slot=0 pd all show, ant the output looks like this, for example:

ssacli ctrl slot=0 pd all show

(...)

   Unassigned

      physicaldrive 1I:2:1 (port 1I:box 2:bay 1, SATA SSD, 480 GB, OK)
      physicaldrive 1I:2:2 (port 1I:box 2:bay 2, SATA SSD, 480 GB, OK)

To proceed, we need the ID that is shown after “physicaldrive” - in this case 1I:2:1 and 1I:2:2. These IDs can be used to create a new RAID1:

ssacli ctrl slot=0 create type=ld drives=1I:2:1,1I:2:2 raid=1

If you have booked 4 or more additional disks and want to create a RAID10, all drives must be specified accordingly, the RAID level is called “1+0” instead of “10” - e.g. like this:

ssacli ctrl slot=0 create type=ld drives=1I:2:1,1I:2:2,1I:2:3,1I:2:4 raid=1+0

You can then use ssacli ctrl slot=0 ld all show detail to view the information on the configured logical drives - the path to the block device is also displayed there, which can then be partitioned and formatted as usual.