[PVE-User] Guidance on how Proxmox 8 treats Intel VROC RAID controller on supermicro x12dpu-6 Server

[Stefan Radman]

Good afternoon John,

> we are not going to use RAID


You should probably not use VROC but you really should use RAID.
Just disable VROC and use ZFS RAID1 directly on the individual drives.

Regards

Stefan

> On Jul 28, 2023, at 10:03, Joseph John <jjk.saji at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear Aaron, Stefan
> Good afternoon 
> THANKS a lot 
> Thanks for the advice of "fake RAID", based on the feedback, we are not going to use RAID 
> I will update to the group, our progress
> Thanks 
> Joseph John 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 6:23 PM Stefan Radman <stefan.radman at me.com <mailto:stefan.radman at me.com>> wrote:
> Hi Joseph 
> 
> Further information and advice on mdraid with Proxmox can be found here
> 
> Software RAID - Unsupported Technologies - mdraid
> https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Software_RAID#mdraid <https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Software_RAID#mdraid>
> For non-production/unsupported setups, where you still want to use mdraid (please don't!), you can create the required RAID level during Debian installation and then install Proxmox VE.
> 
> Note the “please don’t”.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Stefan
> 
> > On Jul 26, 2023, at 15:07, Aaron Lauterer <a.lauterer at proxmox.com <mailto:a.lauterer at proxmox.com>> wrote:
> > 
> > Please have a look at the same topic being discussed last month https://lists.proxmox.com/pipermail/pve-user/2023-June/017117.html <https://lists.proxmox.com/pipermail/pve-user/2023-June/017117.html>
> > 
> > TL;DR: VROC is usually a "fake raid" and not a real HW RAID. It only tells the OS what software RAID to create. On Linux that would typically be MD-RAID.
> > 
> > Proxmox VE does not ship MD Raid and therefore, those disks will still be visible as single disks.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Aaron
> > 
> > On 7/26/23 13:44, Joseph John wrote:
> >> Dear All,
> >> We are trying to install ProxMox 8 on Supermicro x12dpu-6 , with Intel VROC
> >> RAID Controller , we have configured  two SSD in RAID 1 , from the BIOS in
> >> hardware level  and  raid volume is created, but when coming to the proxmox
> >> setup , the installation step is not showing the RAID volume, but it shows
> >> the physical disk separately .
> >> Like get guidance  on how Proxmox treats Intel VROC RAID Controller and the
> >> possible next step
> >> Thanks
> >> Thanks
> >> Joseph John
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