hardware raid

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    [SOLVED] Unable to create zfs pool with ASUS Hyper M.2 adapter card

    Hi all, Last ditch effort to hopefully find a solution before I use a different FS (but would much rather ZFS)! If any of the below is not clear or I have left out important information please do let me know. Appreciate any help and advice. Problem Unable to create a ZFS pool using the drives...
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    Shared access to single hardware RAID pool by multiple VMs. Possible?

    Hello, I have a bit of a niche setup. I have 8x NVMe drives in a custom-built computer and what I am trying to do is maximize processing performance by eliminating as many bottlenecks as I can. These 8x NVMe drives are attached to the motherboard by PCIe. (4x NVMe disks in each PCIe ASUS...
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    Yet another "ZFS on HW-RAID" Thread (with benchmarks)

    Hi, I would like to talk about a topic already discussed hundreds of times here on the forum, but in slightly more scientific and practical terms: ZFS on top of Hardware RAID Introduction I already know all the warnings regarding this configuration, but since in most cases the references...
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    ZFS with Raid Controller

    Hi guys, I would like to know if there is any way in which I can use ZFS (to be able to use Replication) if I have a hardware raid controller. Can ZFS be configured as a single disk and have the raid handled by the hardware? My hardware is 2: HPE Proliant DL360 Gen10 8SFF CTO with HPE Smart...
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    Install on DELL R630 with Hardware RAID

    I have a DELL Poweredge R630 with the current setup: CHIP: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v3 @ 2.40GHz, 24 cores RAM: 64GB STORAGE: 10x 1.2TB SAS drives for RAID 10 DELL PERC H730 Mini gives me around 6TB in RAID 10 I will format this server and install proxmox. The confussion is from watching...
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    Hardware RAID to store VM

    Hi everyone! I just bought a server and installed Proxmox VE on a ssd device. Now I want to run only one VM with Windows Server 2022. The VM should be stored on my Microchip Adaptec SmartRAID 3101E-4i Controller with 4 SATA SSD devices, which I turned into a RAID10. That worked very easy. The...
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    ZFS mit Hardware Raid für Storage Replication

    Hallo zusammen Ich spiele momentan gerade etwas mit Proxmox herum um es zu lernen, und bin auf folgendes Problem gestossen: Mein Server (HP Proliant dl380 gen9) hat einen integrierten Hardware Raid Controller (Smart Array P440ar). Momentan habe ich ein Raid10 Array (ext4) aus 4 ssds, welches...
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    All SSDs ZFS Setup

    Hi guys, Need help to get best performance for my server. - DELL PowerEdge R820 - CPU : 4 x 2.60Ghz E5-4650L Xeon Eight Core - RAM : 12 x 16GB PC3L-10600, [192GB Total] - HDD : 8 x 960GB SSD SATA 2.5" 6GB/s (Samsung PM853T) - RAID : PERC H710 (I ordered a H310 since H710 doesn't support HBA or...
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    Dell PowerEdge R540 mit PERC730+ RAID

    Hallo Proxmox Community, Wir bekommen einen neuen Server mit folgender Ausstattung: Dell PowerEdge R540 über 64GB Ram PERC730+ RAID 4x 960GB SSD SATA Das Ziel ist maximale Performance, auch IO. überwiegend Windows Server VMs, einige Linux Vms. Da die Hardware recht neu ist konnte ich dazu...
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    Cluster Topology - Proxmox 5.2

    Hello, I would like to build a HA Proxmox Cluster. I reserve 5 x server for this project with these specs; 2 x Server; Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX1330 M3 Intel Xeon E3-1230v6 3.50GHz Memory: 32GB ECC DDR4 RAM 2x 120GB SSD (OS) 2x 250GB PCI-E SSD (Pool) (planing to use Raid1) 2x Intel Corporation...
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    Right RAID Settings with Proxmox 5

    Hi, most of our servers have 6-8 SSD Hard drives with RAID Controller that include 1GB-2GB Cache now, the question is what is the recommended configuration for Proxmox 5 focus on Availability and best performance: 1. Hardware RAID 10? 2. ZFS with RAID10? 3. Hardware RAID1 with ZFS Raid0? 4...
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    Zfs and Hardware Raid.

    Hi, I'm renting some servers with hardware raid. RAID controller (P222) RAID controller (P420) Configured as hardware RAID 0. I'm using ZFS (RAID1), what danger can I have ?, or will I only lose performance, a few days ago I use it like this and at the moment everything normal. Thanks for...