[PVE-User] Proxmox Wishlist

[Eneko Lacunza]

Hi,

On 25/06/14 09:26, admin-at-extremeshok-dot-com wrote:
> Usually mdadm on a boot/root partition leads to corruption, have you 
> failed/replaced a drive and tried to recover ?
>
> Relying on something is only good until it fails ..

I have done so a couple of times, without issues, but not on our Proxmox 
deployments. We use mdadm for VM data only, root/boot partitions are on 
Hw RAID.

I have even recovered a mdadm softraid1 data from a failed Iomega 
storcenter ix2 NAS that was in the process of recovering de raid1, just 
pluging the disks to a regular PC.

Cheers
Eneko

>
> On 6/25/2014 9:02 AM, Eneko Lacunza wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 24/06/14 23:22, Alexandre DERUMIER wrote:
>>>>> 3.) Software RAID/Fake-RAID is not suited for the enterprise 
>>>>> environment, with that said, you can still run Proxmox on Software 
>>>>> RAID, but it's not supported. You don't need a $300 RAID card, I 
>>>>> bought a complete >>server recently for $200 that had a built-in 
>>>>> LSI SAS1064E controller
>>> I'm begin to test raid management at lvm level (available since last 
>>> lvm releases), maybe it could be easy to extend the proxmox installer.
>> I made some tests months ago, and I was socked to see that when a 
>> disk in LVM raid-1 broke, LVM provided no warning (as opposed to 
>> mdadm, that sends a message and logs to syslog).
>>
>> Maybe it was bad configuration on my part, but it made us continue to 
>> use mdadm for softRAID and never look back.
>>
>> BTW, we have mdadm deployed for production purposes in a pair of 
>> clusters with success. I think that with the level of expertise 
>> required to manage mdadm softRAID, relaying on the debian installer 
>> is good enough.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Eneko
>>
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