Raid 1 in HPE Gen10

[Robert Moskowitz]

I think Google AI is giving me some 'newer' instructions to use the HP 
"Smart Storage Administrator" at boot up setup.

Will see if I can do that.  But other pointers are welcome!

On 6/18/25 9:31 PM, Robert Moskowitz via ubuntu-users wrote:
> I have an HPE Gen 10 with 4 4TB drives that has been sitting for 2 
> years for me to figure out how to get RAID working.
>
> Now that I am working with Ubuntu, it almost makes sense, but I am not 
> there.  Yet.
>
> Seems I have to go into custom setup for the drives.
>
> So far I have only taken 2 drives into a RAID1 config and the other 
> two into an LVM
>
> Once I selected Raid and put the two drives in it, I was only offered 
> formatting as EXT4 for /
>
> I am being told I need a boot partition.  Of course.
>
> So is there any decent guide for this?
>
> I could put a USB stick into the internal USB port and probably set 
> that up as the boot partition, but then I would be concerned, long 
> term about what would happen if that USB stick fails and I loose boot.
>
> So any pointers would be greatly appreciated!
>
> This system will be used as storage.  I am working out how I would put 
> it on a poweron timer to turn on at 1am and have a cron job to shut it 
> down at 5am after all timed backups are done.
>
> If I need the backups during the day, I could just 'force' a power 
> on.  Perhaps do this with a power strip with a timer?
>
>
> thanks!
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