If this is your first time bringing up a OpenPOWER server and you wanted a to setup a megaRAID volume before you do an install: You should be reading this.
In order to do this
- Power on the server and wait for Petitboot menu to show on your VGA or Out of Band console. This should take 4-5 mins .
- When should get to Petitboot menu and then press “Exit to Shell” option as show below:
3. Once in petitboot shell, you can access a plugged in thumb drive with storcli64 binary or scp / wget the same binary from Petitboot shell. I am providing the binary corresponding to latest here:
4. change ‘storcli64’ permissions : “chmod 777 storcli64”
5. Now you can use this storcli64 binary to create a VD that you can subsequently install. Here is a dictionary of Storcli commands you can use for doing the same:
Show all physical drives:
./storcli64 /c0 /eall /sall show
Show existing VD
./storcli64 /c0 /vall show
Delete ALL Existing VD
./storcli64 /c0 /vall del force
Configure: Add everything to RAID 0 ( Based on number of drives you have, command changes, in my case it was 14 drives)
./storcli64 /c0 add vd type=r0 drives=0:0-14
Show new VD
./storcli64 /c0 /vall show
Initiate:
./storcli64 /c0 /vall start init
Check if everything is online:
./storcli64 /c0 /eall /sall show
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