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    Best Storage config for 4-disk server

    Gosha - I suppose it is just from our other experiences with ESXi and MSFT Hypervisor. For these solutions, it is always recommended or advised to separate the host OS from the VMs and general storage. I assume this is to make things easier or quicker for disaster recovery, as the host machine...
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    Best Storage config for 4-disk server

    OK. Makes sense. In the 1u chassis there would need to be PCIe riser card. Even so, very little room within.
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    Best Storage config for 4-disk server

    I have some DELL 1U servers with 4 SAS drives recently discovered that the built-in RAID was just a firmware (not hardware) implementation. I subsequently decided to try configuring the 4 disks as as Proxmox ZFS RAID 10 array and proceed with installation. This appeared to work fine, but I am...
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    PVE 5.0 on a DELL Poweredge C1100 - RAID

    Thanks, Dominik. I went and installed ZFS RAID 10, and it seemed to go OK. Looking over that link, not sure if there are any show-stoppers. Going to run some test to make sure everything is operating as expected.
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    PVE 5.0 on a DELL Poweredge C1100 - RAID

    Yes. I think you may be correct. According to Wikipedia: Matrix RAID is a computer storage technology marketed by Intel. It is a firmware, rather than hardware or software, RAID system. It if is firmware, they that is just "software RAID" built into the chipset. They go on to say: Linux...
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    PVE 5.0 on a DELL Poweredge C1100 - RAID

    Hello, Trying to install on PVE 5.0 on a DELL Poweredge C1100, and it does not appear to be detecting the hardware raid array correctly. While it does see that 4 disks, they are detected individually - even though a valid RAID10 array is defined and operational. Base on the RAID BIOS config...