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KKurgan reacted to SteveITS's post in the thread Dell PERC and ZFS: can I avoid flashing it in HBA mode? with
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Since we don't have a Dell server this isn't the best answer, but on an old server with an LSI controller we installed PVE after breaking the hardware RAID and setting the SAS disks to JBOD. The OS sees the drive model/serial directly and the ZFS... -
KKurgan reacted to MarkusKo's post in the thread Dell PERC and ZFS: can I avoid flashing it in HBA mode? with Like.
I did this on an older HPE server and it seems to be fine. Unfortunately i did not test this extensively so i can't tell you if this is stable long term. I would recommend a BOSS card for the hypervisor install because there seem to be some...
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KKurgan replied to the thread Dell PERC and ZFS: can I avoid flashing it in HBA mode?.Yes, I understand this is the idea, and I have configured one like this already (one raid5 virtual disk and a single physical disk) in a different scenario. What I don't really know is if this is fine or has issues with ZFS.
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KKurgan replied to the thread Dell PERC and ZFS: can I avoid flashing it in HBA mode?.Thanks, I definitely don't want to lose ZFS features by using it over a raid setup. If the controller can be completely bypassed by setting it properly and not flashing it, then it would be fine. Even better if I can actually have a hardware raid...
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KKurgan reacted to gasherbrum's post in the thread Dell PERC and ZFS: can I avoid flashing it in HBA mode? with Like.
believe if you set the individual drives to jbod via the raid controller there are still some issues and it isnt truly in in IT mode, HBA would be preferable for production...
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KKurgan replied to the thread Dell PERC and ZFS: can I avoid flashing it in HBA mode?.In our scenario vmware would be using local storage for boot and data, like PVE would. The difference is that Vmware needs a raid controller (an approved one, too), while PVE needs mostly anything that is non-raid to work. The idea here is to...
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KKurgan reacted to Johannes S's post in the thread Dell PERC and ZFS: can I avoid flashing it in HBA mode? with Like.
AFIK most modern systems allow to change their RAID configuration via BIOS/UEFI settings. @Falk R. mentioned this several times thatthere is no need to risc breaking your PERC by flashing. So imho you should be good with a "non-raid" setting...
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KKurgan posted the thread Dell PERC and ZFS: can I avoid flashing it in HBA mode? in Proxmox VE: Installation and configuration.I've been asked to consider buying a new Dell server that can work both with PVE and Vmware. Vmware requires a compatible raid controller, PVE requires NO raid controller (I want to use ZFS so I can make a ZFS replica to another identical...