HPE NS204i-p NVMe OS Boot Device Proxmox VE

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I am considering installing this HPE card in my DL360 Gen10. According to the data sheet, the boot device is supported by RHEL, SLES, Windows and VMware.
The card provides 2x480 GB NVMe M.2 SSDs in Raid 1 and, according to HPE, is supported without any other special drivers.
This would have the advantage that I could use all disks (8x800GB SSDs) in the ZFS storage pool and thus use the maximum possible space of the SSDs.

My question: Has anyone used this card with Proxmox VE and is satisfied with it?

https://www.hpe.com/psnow/doc/a00094638enw.html?jumpid=in_pdp-psnow-qs
 
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I'm planing to use the same card in the same server. Do you know if the NVMe's are changeable? Like to upgrade to 1TB drives...
And did you considered to use a RAID5 over the SSDs instead ZFS?
 
Just found this and see you answered it yourself. But for others I can also confirm it works perfectly. I had to increase the space of the default boot partition in Proxmox to use 100% but then have plenty of storage. Use it for ISO storage and my containers. They all start in about 3 seconds and are very responsive on their web interfaces. Proxmox boots in seconds also. Just need to get a better CPU and more memory.. as well as convert my VM storage over to flash then as well :D

ML350 Gen10 and NS204i
 
Does it work on a HPE Proliant DL20 with NS205i-u also?
Any difference on NS204i-p and I-u?
 
sutty said:
Just found this and see you answered it yourself. But for others I can also confirm it works perfectly. I had to increase the space of the default boot partition in Proxmox to use 100% but then have plenty of storage. Use it for ISO storage and my containers. They all start in about 3 seconds and are very responsive on their web interfaces. Proxmox boots in seconds also. Just need to get a better CPU and more memory.. as well as convert my VM storage over to flash then as well :D

ML350 Gen10 and NS204i
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I had to increase the space of the default boot partition in Proxmox to use 100% but then have plenty of storage.

Could you explain what/how? I'm about to install on one of these.
 
mccabeross said:
Thanks. My apologies, it wasn't clear to me which question above was being answered.
Did you use HPE branded or 3rd party?
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Just adding some info to old posts: HP doesn't support the card used with 3rd party drives, but they do work, which is good because the official HPE drives are very difficult to find and extremely expensive now.
 
If anyone reading this liked the idea of the NS204i but wanted something more generic, HighPoint's SSD6202A is an equivalent Marvell-based card. We have the HP cards in some Proliant servers, and HighPoint cards in some SuperMicro boxes.

You can even take the pair of SSDs from the NS204i board and put them on the 6202A and it sees the virtual disk mirror and picks back up where the HP left off... I didn't test if you could go the other direction, though.

The HighPoint card creates a virtual disk named "VD_0" and the HP card creates one named "NS_0", if I remember correctly...
 
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