Intel_RAID_HA_Solution_RHEL_WhitePaper

Installation Intel® RAID High Availability Solution for Red Hat* Linux Systems White Paper
Intel Confidential Revision 1.0
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2.4 Operating System Installation
The operating system can be installed to drives connected to the raid controller, or to drives
connected to the server board ports.
In this example, Red Hat* Enterprise Linux is used.
Example #1: Install two hard disk drives or SSDs (SSDs are an excellent choice due to the
faster boot that they provide) with at least 200GB capacity and connect them to the on-board
SAS or SATA ports, and configure them as a mirror using either RSTe or ESRT2 server board
raid options. For additional information refer to the documentation for the server system chosen
for use.
Example #2: Configure a virtual drive using drives connected the RS25SB008 RAID Controller,
however, there must be enough capacity in the remaining drives connected to the raid controller
to configure a quorum disk and volumes for shared failover. For additional information, see the
RAID controller hardware guide.
1. Install Enterprise Linux from the DVD or using typical methods. In this example, the two
servers are named “HA01.SH” and “HA02.SH”.
The following basic configuration steps need to be completed for each server after the
basic operating system installation. These are:
a) Network Configuration
b) Installation of Intel
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HA RAID Drivers and Intel
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RAID Web Console 2
c) Installation of HA Cluster Packages
d) Firewall and SELinux Changes
e) Configure the HA Cluster
2. Using the command-line prompt, login to the server as “root” and enter the root
password.