RAID5 Array configuration - and mount it to an Amazon EC2 instance as the additional storage (Raid 5 Configuration)
Create a RAID5 Array and mount it to an Amazon EC2 instance as the additional storage By: Udara Pathirage on 7 th Jan 2021 Create an EC2 instance using the AWS Console- using default settings. 2. SSH in to the instance a) Check the current disk details i) $df –h b) List the currently attached Hard disk drives, $lsblk c) See the partition details; $fdisk –l 3. Create 3 volumes using the AWS Console; Magnetic is the cheapest to make the tests. a) Select the Availability Zone where the App Instances has hosted. Otherwise, it will not be able to mount b) For the RAID5, minimum of 3 hard disks required c) Clone settings of Volumes d) Give the name of ‘device’ as ‘sdb’, ‘sdc’, ‘sdd’ ,so on i) First check whether there are hard disks available in the names that we are going to create in the next steps - $fdisk –l e) RAID 5 Total capacity of RAID of having 1TB 3 HDD will give only 2TB due to keeping 1TB as a backup. Check how new hard disks have a