Simulate Multiple Drives for RAID (RHEL)

[blinton25]

Hello,

I have to install RHEL on a server with two drives, but wish to run a test installation using VMware to confirm that I can use RAID 5. I have an external drive, and created partitions which under Windows XP allow me to see my external as two distinct drives.

However, DRUID sees the external drive as a single drive with separate partitions, is there a way to simulate having multiple drives?

 

[lgarner]

If you're using VMware, you should be able to present two drives to the guest OS as two .vmdk files.

More importantly, you can't have RAID 5 with only two drives.

 

[blinton25]

Hello,

Thanks, I meant Raid 1, I wish to mirror the drive contents.

I am not sure where in the settings to configure multiple vmdks, when I go to Settings>Hard Disk I see the name of the current vmdk file but I don't see an option to add another file.

Could you advise how?