[PVE-User] Installing Hardware RAID.

[Eneko Lacunza]

Hi Muhammad,

I have currently the following in production:

(Proxmox VMs on ceph storage, RAID only for boot/root/swap partition)
- PERC H200A - no battery
- IBM ServeRAID 8k (Adaptec) 256MB BBC
- PERC H730 1GB NV
- PERC H710 512MB NV

(RAID for VMs and system)
- PERC H710 512MB NV

Try to avoid PERC H310, I had reliability issues with drivers in 
2.6.32/3.10 kernels (it would work/not work randomly on each reboot)

Cheers
Eneko

El 18/12/15 a las 14:32, Muhammad Yousuf Khan escribió:
> Thanks Eneko and Admin.
>
> Can you please mention which RAID card you are using?
>
> Thanks,
> MYK
>
> On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 4:51 PM, admin at extremeshok.com 
> <mailto:admin at extremeshok.com> <admin at extremeshok.com 
> <mailto:admin at extremeshok.com>> wrote:
>
>     Some of the new raid controllers replaced the battery with a ssd.
>
>     With proper hardware raid, your raid should be transparent to the OS.
>
>     We have been using proxmox with proper hardware raid for years.
>
>     Sent from my iPhone
>
>     > On 18 Dec 2015, at 12:26 PM, Eneko Lacunza <elacunza at binovo.es
>     <mailto:elacunza at binovo.es>> wrote:
>     >
>     > Hi Muhammad,
>     >
>     >> El 17/12/15 a las 19:32, Muhammad Yousuf Khan escribió:
>     >> I have been using Proxmox for so long this is my first time
>     that i may need to use Hardware RAID instead of MDADM, Just asking
>     for my knowledge as i we are planning to buy a raid controller.how
>     do you guys recommend installing Hardware RAID. regardless of fake
>     or true RAID.
>     >>
>     >> I am asking this because there are two methods of installing
>     Proxmox (a) first install debian, (b) then installing PVE kernel.
>     >>
>     >> However the 2nd type of installation is via ISO image.  and i
>     am mostly using the first method with software RAID or ZFS. this
>     is my first time i am looking into Hardware raid installation.
>     >>
>     >> so which method do you guys prefer?
>     >>
>     >> I can see Debian Jessie has the driver for my RAID CARD.
>     >>
>     >> here is the model HP DL380
>     >> https://wiki.debian.org/HP/ProLiant
>     >>
>     >>
>     >> any sharing knowledge will be highly appreciated.
>     > I always use ISO image, except when I need to do something not
>     supported by it (i.e. softraid ;) ).
>     >
>     > Please, do not use fakeRAID. If you're using RAID card for
>     performance reasons, use one with battery backed/NV cache.
>     >
>     > Cheers
>     > Eneko
>     >
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