HP Proliant DL120 G7 with P212/256MB SmartArray Controller GPT Support

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I have the HP Proliant DL120 G7 server with P212/256MB SmartArray Controller configured with 4 - 2TB drives as RAID 1+0 (4TB usable space).

I would like to have a small partition for my Linux OS and the rest as a single large partition for home.

Is this possible as the home partition would be larger than 2TB?

Any help would be greatly appreciated as the HP Tech Support has been useless; they recommended Raid 5!

Best Answer

HP Smart Array controllers previously did not allow logical disk sizes greater than 2.2TB. This has changed recently, but in the case of your ProLiant DL120 G7, there may be an incompatibility as detailed in this customer document.

The Quickspecs for the P212 controller show that >2TB LUNS are available now. Make sure you've updated to the most recent firmware for the controller and for your DL120 G7 server. Try from there and see if it works.

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