Recent content by sjpotter

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    boot off of usb with logs/db written to zfs?

    not flashed, its actually has built in support for switching between hba and raid modes. run the hp utility and can select raid or hba mode. (unlike the Dell's where you have to flash it). With that said, I think I'd rather have an r720xd vs the dl380p (12 bay) at this point. ilo is in some...
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    boot off of usb with logs/db written to zfs?

    G8 doesn't have EFI, that was only added in G9 (afaict). and afaict it just doesn't enable non logical drives (i.e. raid mode) to boot. Or at least, I haven't figured out how (and I believe googling around found many with the same issue with the response that yes that's not supported, but...
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    boot off of usb with logs/db written to zfs?

    Its highly recommended that proxmox not be installed onto a usb key type device, because proxmox will wear it out due to its active writing to its root file system. This is somewhat problematic in devices like the HP DL380p (at least G8) as one cannot boot off the normal internal hard drives if...