[http://www.flexraid.com/ FlexRAID ] is a highly scalable and smart storage system that turns independent hard drives of various sizes, makes, and models into storage pools and storage pools into storage clouds.

'''NOTE:''' Ensure you turn off Greyhole and disable it permanently as shown in [[Greyhole#Disable_Greyhole|Greyhole Disable Section]]. THey <u>SHOULD NOT</u> been run together and could produce disastrous results. CLI Client:<!--http://download.openegg.org/release/FlexRAID/Basic/1.4/b7/FlexRAID_Basic_Host_1.4_beta7.binhttp://download.openegg.org/release/FlexRAID/Basic/1.4/b7/FlexRAIDWebUI_1.4.tar.gz--><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-break: keep-all;"><nowiki>http://download.openegg.org/release/FlexRAID/Basic/1.0/FlexRAID_Basic_CMD_Client_1.0_final.bin</nowiki></pre>  Forums: <nowiki>http://www.openegg.org/forums/forums/list.page</nowiki> Tutorials: <nowiki>http://www.openegg.org/forums/posts/list/173.pagehttp://www.openegg.org/forums/posts/list/167.page</nowiki> ===Manual Installation Steps===# * Create a web app called '''flexraid'''# Became * [[Open_Terminal_as_root|As root user]], do the following:# cd /var/hda/web-apps/flexraid# Downloaded the file wget <nowiki>http://download.openegg.org/release/FlexRAID/Basic/1.4/b7/FlexRAID_Basic_Host_1.4_beta7.bin</nowiki># Unarchived the file and moved it to html wget <nowiki>http://download.openegg.org/release/FlexRAID/Basic/1.4/b7/FlexRAIDWebUI_1.4.tar.gz</nowiki># cd tar -xzpf FlexRAIDWebUI_1.4.tar.gz -d html# chmod +x ./FlexRAID_Basic_Host_1.4_beta7.bin# ./FlexRAID_Basic_Host_1.4_beta7.bin# When * Accept the EULA and when prompted for location, I entered enter '''''/home/<USERNAME>/openegg'''''.# Then manually edited * Edit the web app .conf file : vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/1000###-flexraid.conf# Added a * Add the following line after server lines...ServerAlias line: RedirectPermanent / <nowiki>http://localhost:8080</nowiki># Restarted * Restart web server: service httpdrestart* Start FlexRAID and WebUI: /home/user/FLEXRAID & /var/hda/web-apps/flexraid/html/start.sh* Open web browser and navigate to: <nowiki>http://localhost:8080</nowiki>* Log in using admin/admin as user name and password...service httpd restart# Downloaded <br /> === Create Init Script (Not Working)===* To enable FlexRAID to start on boot, create the sample init script from the site file named '''flexraid''' and modified insert the variables to match the path following text:<pre>#! /bin/sh # by wyld### BEGIN INIT INFO# Provides: FlexRAID application instance# Required-Start: $all# Required-Stop: $all# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5# Default-Stop: 0 1 6# Short-Description: starts FlexRAID app# Description: starts instance of FlexRAID app using start-stop-daemon### END INIT INFO PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/opt/flexraid:/opt/flexraid/webui ############### EDIT ME ################## # daemon DAEMON=/home/amahi/openegg/FlexRAIDDAEDIR=/home/<USERNAME>amahi/openegg/wDAEDIR=/var/hda/web-apps/flexraid/htmlNAME="flexraid"DESC="FlexRAID backend and webui"USER="root" LOGDIR=/var/logRUNDIR=/var/runARGS="" ########## Started flexraid##### END EDIT ME ################## test -x $DAEMON || exit 0 set -e case "$1" in start) echo "Starting $DESC: " start-stop-daemon --start --oknodo --background --chdir $DAEDIR --exec $DAEMON start-stop-daemon --start --oknodo --chdir $wDAEDIR --name $NAME.web --startas /bin/sh $wDAEDIR/start.sh echo "[ $NAME ]" ;; stop) echo "Stopping $DESC: " start-stop-daemon --stop --oknodo --exec $DAEMON start-stop-daemon --start --oknodo --chdir $wDAEDIR --name $NAME.web --startas /bin/sh $wDAEDIR/stop.sh echo "[ $NAME ]" ;; restart) echo "Restarting $DESC: " start-stop-daemon --stop --oknodo --exec $DAEMON start-stop-daemon --start --oknodo --chdir $wDAEDIR --name $NAME.web --startas /bin/sh $wDAEDIR/stop.sh sleep 1 start-stop-daemon --start --oknodo --background --chdir $DAEDIR --exec $DAEMON start-stop-daemon --start --oknodo --chdir $wDAEDIR --name $NAME.web --startas /bin/sh $wDAEDIR/start.sh echo "[ $NAME ]" ;; *) N=/etc/init.d/$NAME echo "Usage: $N {start|stop|restart}" >&2 exit 1 ;;esac exit 0</pre> * To enable the script to run on boot, do the following: install -m 755 flexraid /etc/init.d/ /sbin/chkconfig flexraid on /sbin/service flexraid start* To start/stop the service: service flexraid start service flexraid stop* To check service status: service flexraid status === Post Install Questions ===* Does Greyhole need to be disabled?* Does this work with LVM disks? [[Category:Apps]]