In this video we are booting the server and pressing f10 to enable the HP intelligent provisioning section of the server utility. Our homelab server is used but has been reset to factory settings. In the next couple videos we will build the raids and arrays with the 3.5 WD red NAS hard drives on our HP proliant DL360 g8 homelab server.
In this video we are taking the 4 3.5 WD red hard drives and assigning them to do different tasks inside of our Hp Prolaint server. The first bay and drive will run the operating system on a raid 0. Bay 2 and 3 will store our data in a raid 1. Bay 4 will be a backup drive incase bay 2 or 3 dies. My goal was to use all 4 3.5 WD drives in a raid 5 configuration but I would need to place the operating system on a different ssd drive. If any one knows how to do this please contact me. This would give me 11tb of space to store my data. (to use all 4 drive bays you can put the oS onto a jump drive. This will keep all for harddrive bays available to use in the raid configurations.)
In this video we are assigning the last drive in bay 4 as a backup drive to our raid 1 that was built from drives 2 and 3. Learn how to assign a back up drive to your logical drives raids and arrays. Our current set up has the OS on one Drive the Long term storage mirrored in a raid 1 and one last drive to act as a backup incase one of the drives in the raid one fails.