Ubuntu 12.10 Server + RAID5

[frobear]

Hi All,

I have installed Ubuntu 12.10 Server on my HP Microserver. I installed it onto an SSD and now have 4 1TB HDD which I want to configure as RAID5.

How do I go about doing this, can I do this from the console or remotely using telnet or is there a GUI tool available?

Any help would be great, most guides I have found are to do it at OS install time (ie OS installed on RAID) or for older versions.

Thanks !

[mosalem]

yes. you are able to make it done completely by the console
this is good tutorial using mdadm to setup the raid.
check out page 32
http://download.intel.com/support/ch...rste_linux.pdf

check out your motherboard whether it has the controller. if yes you can have a better performance by using intel driver imsm.

[mosalem]

Hi All,

I have installed Ubuntu 12.10 Server on my HP Microserver. I installed it onto an SSD and now have 4 1TB HDD which I want to configure as RAID5.

How do I go about doing this, can I do this from the console or remotely using telnet or is there a GUI tool available?

Any help would be great, most guides I have found are to do it at OS install time (ie OS installed on RAID) or for older versions.

Thanks !

yes. you are able to make it done completely by the console
this is good tutorial using mdadm to setup the raid.
check out page 32
http://download.intel.com/support/ch...rste_linux.pdf

check out your motherboard whether it has the controller. if yes you can have a better performance by using intel driver imsm.

[Cheesemill]

Check out rubylaser's blog, it has some great info on RAID using mdadm.

http://zackreed.me/articles/38-softw...ian-with-mdadm

http://zackreed.me/articles?tag_id=22

[SaturnusDJ]

telnet

Telnet is not secure. Use SSH.

[codemaniac]

Thread Moved to "Server Platforms".

Cheers!!

[rubylaser]

I would definitely use mdadm in this case as opposed to the Fakeraid in the HP Microserver. mdadm is not dependent on hardware, is very portable, and easy to setup. Another option, if it's just for home media storage and you don't need the faster performance associated with realtime RAID, SnapRAID is another viable solution.

[frobear]

Thanks everyone for there responses.

I used the mdadm tutorial posted by Cheesemill, cheers for that, worked a treat, slowly coming together