# Install&Configure raid1 and bios on a HP ilo server

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/install-configure-raid1-and-bios-on-a-hp-ilo-server/33699>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [August 29, 2020, 1:01am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/install-configure-raid1-and-bios-on-a-hp-ilo-server/33699 "2020-08-29T01:01:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![DevOps\_Automation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@DevOps\_Automation](https://forum.ansible.com/u/DevOps_Automation)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2020, 1:01am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/install-configure-raid1-and-bios-on-a-hp-ilo-server/33699/1 "2020-08-29T01:01:23Z")

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Hi,

Need to install and configure raid1 and bios on a HP ilo server (before OS installation) by ansible playbook. Can we install raid1 and bios by CLI on a HP ILO (has to done by ansible playbook), if yes can you please give me a reference.

Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![Igor\_Gnatenko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e8c25b/32.png) [@Igor\_Gnatenko](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Igor_Gnatenko)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2020, 5:23pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/install-configure-raid1-and-bios-on-a-hp-ilo-server/33699/2 "2020-08-29T17:23:34Z")

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I think this is the wrong question to ask. Depending on what you want  
to configure in iLO, you could simply use the `uri` module to interact  
with the redfish API. If you need to set up some BIOS parameters, your  
best friend would be `hponcfg` from some OS (possibly during the  
installation of OS). Same goes for RAID, I don't think you can easily  
create it without having some OS, in our company we build our own  
images with `ssacli` and create RAID as a part of %pre section of  
kickstart file (we use CentOS).