Dell R610 ProxMox host on usb but it will not see H700 raid

[Jaishil Panchal]

Hi,

I'm planning to use proxmox as a hypervisior on a Dell PowerEdge R610 which will be installed on USB drive and the local drives are storage for the server to see as storage. When i installed proxmox everything installed correctly but the host didn't see the local raid storage from the perc H700.

Thank you in advace for your help.

 

[Richard]

Hi,

I'm planning to use proxmox as a hypervisior on a Dell PowerEdge R610 which will be installed on USB drive and the local drives are storage for the server to see as storage. When i installed proxmox everything installed correctly but the host didn't see the local raid storage from the perc H700.

Looks like your HW raid is not a real but a so called "fake" raid, which is only known by certain OS-es (Windows in most cases).

Disable the raid function and use each disk a one blockdevice in Proxmox.

 

[Rhinox]

Looks like your HW raid is not a real but a so called "fake" raid, which is only known by certain OS-es (Windows in most cases).

Dell PERC H700 definitely *is* true hardware-raid controller. It is based on SAS2108 SoC and supports raid5/6 too. But unlike IBM/Intel/Fujitsu/etc controllers based on SAS2108, H700 does not use reference LSI-design. Probably because of that, standard "megaraid" (megaraid_sas, megaraid_mbox) linux kernel driver can not find it.

IIRC, Dell PowerEdge with PERC needs mptsas/mpt2sas kernel module. But I do not have any Dell around, so I can not test it...

 

[HBO]

Installed Debian 9 on a Dell R510 with PERC H700 (build hw raid 10) without any problems, no need to manual load raid drivers during installation.

 

[alexskysilk]

Probably because of that, standard "megaraid" (megaraid_sas, megaraid_mbox) linux kernel driver can not find it.

It does. works like a champ the non standard part has to do with the embedded UI and hooks for Openmanage.