Adding Second Raid 5 Drive from iDrac 8

 

I have a dell R730xd server with an iDrac8 with a PERC H730P mini Raid Controller with 2GB of
cache.

 

I have a raid 5 already with 4 disk running.  I have 3 more disks I want to turn into a second raid 5 drive that can then be mounted in the Ubuntu 26.04 running on the first raid.  I want to see how this is done from the iDrac8 web page.

 

Uploading ISO over 2GB to iDrac8

 

I have a dell R730xd server with an iDrac8 with a 16GB vFlash.

Its relatively easy to upload an iso to it from the iDrac HTML5 web interface… As long as its under 2GB in size.

 

There is a way to upload an ISO that is over 2GB, but you have to jump through some hoops.

Uploading ISO under 2GB to iDrac8

 

I have a Dell R730xd server with an iDrac8 and a 16GB vFlash.   Here is how you can upload an iso that is under 2GB to it to use for installing an OS on the drive

Why do I say under 2GB?  Well if you are going to use the iDrac html5 web interface you are limited to a max of 2GB for upload.  There are other ways to upload a bigger ISO but that is for another article.

Claude and chrome-devtools-mcp

 

The chrome-devtools-mcp https://github.com/ChromeDevTools/chrome-devtools-mcp/ [1]

Is an official MCP (Model Context Protocol) server from the chrome team that gives AI coding agents direct access to a live chrome browser and its DevTools Capabilities.

 

Grok and chrome-devtools-mcp

 

The chrome-devtools-mcp https://github.com/ChromeDevTools/chrome-devtools-mcp/ [1]

Is an official MCP (Model Context Protocol) server from the chrome team that gives AI coding agents direct access to a live chrome browser and its DevTools Capabilities.