Installation of RHEL on HP

Author           : Gandhi Sakyi

HP Hardware:  HP DL 380 G7

Redhat Linux:  RHEL 5.4 (64bits)
RAM                :   8GB

DISK CONFIGURATION

I Implemented RAID 1+0 Configuration for 8 , 300 GB DISKS with the help of the HP SmartStart accompanying CD. I created 2 SAS Array Logical Drives & volume each of 558.7 GB of size.

For Steps on how to implement and configure RAID 1+0 please follow the below links:

• http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/08/raid-levels-tutorial/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_RAID_levels

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID

• http://robustdigitalsolutions.com/html/raid-5.html

Mount  Points
volumes                Sizes(MB)                                            Mount Point
lvol0                        5536                                                          swap
lvol1                        10240                                                       /
lvol2                        2048                                                         /stand
lvol3                        8192                                                         /var
lvol4                        8192                                                         /usr
lvol5                        15360                                                       /tmp
lvol6                        15360                                                       /opt
lvhome                  20480                                                       /home
lvappl                     30814                                                       /appl
lvora01                   50000                                                       /ra/oradata/u01