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2011年10月10日 星期一

Create Software RAID on openfiler 2.99.1

After adding five new disk on VMware emulator, I want to create a Software RAID for preparing the prerequisite of LVM. So I open the openfiler management by Browser, click "Volume" ---> "Software RAID" ---> "Create new Arrays partitions" to create the first RAID array.

Due to these new block devices never are partitioned, the previous activity will return to Block Device Management and it wait for us to build block device partition.
To click the first 10GB disk on "/dev/sdb"

To select partition type to "RAID array member " next to click "Create" button

You will see Device "/dev/sdb1" is created and Type is "Linux RAID Array Member (0xfd)".
Next to click "Back to the list of physical storage devices" to return to the original Block Device Management.
(PS: I am not sure why keep free 5% disk space. Maybe need to find the answer in the future!)

To realize partition status, you can click "View" this hyperlink.

You will see the partition information as "Used In".

To follow the above steps for new disk repeatedly, let the partition of these disks is created on "Linux RAID Array Member" type.

If all disks is ready, please click "Volume" ---> "Software RAID" again. You will see the RAID array type explanation and what disk is ready for selecting.

To select "RAID-10", enable check box on these devices, and select one disk "/dev/sdf1" as Spare disk, please click "Add array" button to begin to create new RAID array now.
If no any problem in the process, you will see new array "/dev/md0" is created.

To click "View members", you also can know the status of member device of array individually.

Now it finish on the creation of software RAID of openfiler.

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