I have an HP ProLiant BL460C Gen8 having real hardware RAID.
I am trying to install Red Hat Enterprise x86_64 bit on an HP ProLiant (iLO 4) server with an Array of 2 hard drives configured as RAID1.
The built in server manager (intelligent provisioning
) allows me to change the setting and configuration of the storage array between RAID0 and RAID1
But RED HAT starts the process of the clean install, and i get to select the time, language, etc. but it stops because it could not detect a storage disk. All it can see is the virtual boot drive that it creates while booting to allow it to run (capacity 256 MB).
I tried to manually/custom add the storage setting but again, all available storage is 250 mb and all found devices is 1.
What am I doing wrong?
Best Answer
HP ProLiant server hardware evolves throughout the lifecycles of long-running Operating System distributions like Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
In your original post, I specifically asked what version of RHEL you were attempting to install. This is important information because Red Hat 6 was introduced well before Generation 8 ProLiant servers. There are standards that apply and also an extensive and annotated HP/RHEL compatibility matrix that provides guidance on what combinations of hardware and OS work properly.
For your specific case, you need at least RHEL 6.1 in order to use this server.
A larger issue here is trying to install old software on modern equipment. RHEL 6.0 is from 2010. It's 2015 now. In your comments, you mentioned installing RHEL 6.3. That's from 2012. Also a bit of a bad choice.
Is there any reason you're not using the current release of Red Hat?
Also see: RHEL 5.5 server has most devices listed as "Unknown Device"