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    Before buying some servers, thoughts ?

    I've tried this solution for 3 days, and something like 50 reboots, so Please tell us how to do this ;)
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    Before buying some servers, thoughts ?

    I've played with some 360 gen 8 with p420i, you can force it to HBA mode from cli, starting with the SPP 2017.04 and entering CTRL+ALT and keeping pressed type in sequence x+d+b, a cli appear and you can force to hba. The problem is that is not able to boot from any of the port if you set it...
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    "pmxcfs" writing to disk all the time...

    So. In 5.2 this problem is still there. Is there any solution other than disable pve-ha-lrm/pve-ha-crm?
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    Install on non bootable disk (USB /SD boot)

    Nobody has some suggestion? For the moment i'm testing setting all disks as a single raid 0
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    Install on non bootable disk (USB /SD boot)

    Hi, i have a server with these specs: HP DL360 gen8 with HP SmartArray P420i and 4x300GB. I've managed how to set the controller into HBA mode, the problem is that after install it cannot boot,as P420i cannot boot when set to HBA, but i can boot from USB and go through all install process and...
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    Proxmox and non-enterprise SSDs

    I can confirm. Installing on SSD will kill it if you not stop and disable the 2 pve-ha services. The solution is installing over on a mirror of little mechanical disks. It's a pity because in this way you waste 2 disk bays. It could be a good way to write the cluster status on ram on every node.
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    ZFS backup solution with email report

    Hi, i need some advice on what are you using for backupping zfs storage. I'm using znapzend for snapshotting on local storage and sending to external USB and is working fine, but it has no report if snapshot on usb fail. I've made a simple script that check the last snapshot date on USB, but i...
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    znapzend backup generator script

    How are you monitoring your backups? I''ve looked around but found nothing about. It could be very usefull an email alert if the job fail
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    HP Gen9 ZFS Boot Smartarray 440ar

    I've managed how to install grub on efi partition on a USB drive. So the system boot to USB drive containing an efi partition and now the system start. Thanks for your help
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    HP Gen9 ZFS Boot Smartarray 440ar

    I appreciate your interesting in my problem. I've found that using UEFI + ZFS i can boot using the install usb in rescue mode. So i thought... is it possible to install grub on a USB stick, boot from it telling to boot the ZFS pool?
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    HP Gen9 ZFS Boot Smartarray 440ar

    Ok! So, is there any chances to use Proxmox on this server or do i have to give up?
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    HP Gen9 ZFS Boot Smartarray 440ar

    I've attacched what i see know using 6 Disk in raid10
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    HP Gen9 ZFS Boot Smartarray 440ar

    I have installed on 6 disks choosing zfs raid 10. Isn't the boot partition installed on all disks?
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    HP Gen9 ZFS Boot Smartarray 440ar

    1 more hint. Tried installing with only 6x600gb using zfs raid10. The server start in grub command line with the error Unknown device 1 Entering rescue mode Grub rescue>
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    HP Gen9 ZFS Boot Smartarray 440ar

    If i have only the 2 os disk It boot. If i have the 2 os disk (in the First 2 bays) and the other 6 disk It doesn't boot
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    HP Gen9 ZFS Boot Smartarray 440ar

    But if i remove all other disk It boot. Edit: i haven't find an order inside the controller. I can choose cd,USB, internal sata, hp smartarray, network boot
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    HP Gen9 ZFS Boot Smartarray 440ar

    No. It Just not boot, it pass all the boot order until It reach the last option(network boot). Is like It is missing where to boot. But if i remove all the disk except for the 2 with the os it boot. I have no option on boot order. I have cd,USB, ecc and hp smartarray. But inside smartarray i...
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    HP Gen9 ZFS Boot Smartarray 440ar

    Can you elaborate more? Doesn't Work because of hp card? because of 2 different pool? Or because of zfs? So If the problem is 2 different pool i can discard the 2 disk for the os and Just use the single pool with the bigger drive for install and vm Image. If the problem is zfs for boot i can...
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    Proxmox 5.1 won't boot on ZFS and 440AR in HBA mode (HP DL380 Gen9 server)

    I'm having a similar problem. HP440ar with 2 zpool 2disk mirror with proxmox + 6 disk zfs raid10. The server boot only if i remove the 6 disk raid10. Have someone had the same problem?
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    HP Gen9 ZFS Boot Smartarray 440ar

    I've tried installing on the first 2 disk, everything is fine but when i reboot it doesn't boot. Legacy mode active, order bios is ok to boot first from HP 440ar, Hp400ar is in HBA. I've tried to install with only the 2 disk installed and it boot correctly, but if add the others disk it...

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