Hi people, I have one old rig HP ProLiant DL380 G5 with 2xQuad Core Xeon @ 3.00GHz, HP Smart Array P400, 32GB DDR2 ECC RAM,. Installing centos 5.7 on HP Proliant DL360e Gen8 was a headache. First of all it comes with HP B120i Dynamice smart array controller which centos or redhat doesnt detect by default. We have to install a source driver from HP separately to detect this controller.

Sponsored Links Installing centos 5.7 on HP Proliant DL360e Gen8 was a headache. First of all it comes with HP B120i Dynamice smart array controller which centos or redhat doesnt detect by default. We have to install a source driver from HP separately to detect this controller. At first I created the RAID 1 logical array using the acu(array configuration utility) oh HP server. And started installing Centos. Installation proceeded but at the time of drive select it showed the two 500GB hard disks instead of one single raid 1 device.

That means os couldn't detect the storage controller. After a lot of googling and HP customer support I found the steps to do it.

HP B120i driver is supported from Redhat/Centos 5u7 onwards. You can download the driver for Redhat/Centos driver from here Creating the usbkey: Form a Linux System: Download the driver file unzip it using the following command #gunzip hpvsa-1.2.6-11.rhel5u7.x86_64.dd.gz you will get hpvsa-1.2.6-11.rhel5u7.x86_64.dd Now burn the file on usb drive suppose usb drive is detected as /dev/sdc (check, be carefull) Run the following command #dd if=hpvsa-1.2.6-11.rhel5u7.x86_64.dd of=/dev/sdc Now Boot the HP proliant DL360e Gen8 Server with usb plugged in and Centos/Redhat 5u7 DVD inserted. On the first boot screen,.

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