When the HP Proliant DL380 G7 boots up the only displayed BIOS options are F9 for Setup, F11 for the boot disk menu, but neither other these take you to the RAID setup. To get to the RAID setup options, when the screen appears showing the F9 and F11 options press F8 every second or so, and you’ll first get the ILO configuration. Exit ILO, and next you’ll get the RAID configuration options. I found this tip mentioned in this post on the HP forums here.
My DL380 G7 has the HP R410i RAID controller card. Here’s step by step getting to the RAID settings:
First from the ILO settings, Exit from the File menu:
After exiting ILO you get the RAID controller options – press F8 for the Arrays Utility:
Now in RAID settings, create your Logical Drive from your available physical drives:
Here I have added 2 500GB drives to a RAID 1+0 array:
I am newbie, thank you!
You can also get to the GUI ACM by using the F10 “intelligent provisioning” and then you can pick “HP Smart Storage Administrator”. You’ll get a blue wave splash screen for a bit and then the GUI Array Configuration Manager
that’s good to know, thanks!
Don’t think there is intelligent provisioning on G7
Thanks really helpful.
how to check raid configuration without rebooting server?
I haven’t used it myself, but I think HP’s hpacucli util lets you do this – see https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-c03493210
Thanks so much for this. Really helpful tip!
Thanks a lot you helped me!!!