Turn off RAID on HP DL380?

Question

Can anyone tell me how I can turn RAID off on a DL380-G5. I just want the disks connected directly without any RAID as I want to use this to test Microsoft's software RAID. Can't seem to find anything in the BIOS to do this.

Solution 1

You can't. For each drive you'll need to create one array with one raid0 logical drive.

Solution 2

This is not possible. Please use an LSI SAS controller in place of the HP Smart Array RAID controller.

Please see:

Disabling RAID feature on HP Smart Array P400

ZFS SAS/SATA controller recommendations

Comments

[ewwhite]

It's not possible. Please use an LSI SAS controller in place of the smartarray.

[Tom O'Connor]

[[citation-needed]]

[MastaJeet]

h18004.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/14328_na/14328_na.pdf All options are Smart Array controllers. Read all of hp.com/ctg/Manual/c00709035.pdf See no mention of JBOD config.

[ewwhite]

Creating multiple RAID-0 logical drives is not an ideal solution to this issue. There's an upper-limit on the number of logical drives (this disks) that can be configured on a controller. Also, the failure of a drive means that a logical volume has failed. This can cause device renaming/reordering issues and kills the ability to hot-plug devices.

[Tom O'Connor]

Thanks. Just wanted to make sure you weren't talking out your arse.