Does Raid sas LSI controller of Fujitsu Primergy TX200 S5 work with proxmox?

[mmenaz]

Hi, the company I work for is going to propose for a client that server, and want to install Proxmox on it.
My boss has asked me if Proxmox will work fine or not
The Fujitsu code is S26361-F3257-L256, chipset LSI, Sas, Raid 5, 256MB, battery on board.
I've not found it in the raid controller list on the wiki, and the only post I've found of someone that has tried sees to be a failure (but there is only one message, so no reply or update, maybe he has figure out how to make it work).
Thanks

 

[mmenaz]

We crossed our fingers and bought the Fujitsu Primergy 200 S4, and fortunately works fine! I've installed Proxmox 1.5-4627-3 (kernel 2.6.18) without troubles and then switched to kernel 2.6.24-11. Works fine so far.
The battery was not charged at the beginning so worked initally as "write-through", then after 1 day went automatically in write-back with HUGE performance difference in pveperf.
Just for record, here the performance results:
kernel 2.6.24-11 on Xeon E5520 @ 2.27GHz, 12 GB RAM, 3 x HD 292.2 GB as raid5
lspci
01:00.0 RAID bus controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS 1078 (rev 04)
Kernel driver in use: megaraid_sas
Kernel modules: megaraid_sas

proxmox:~# pveversion -v
pve-manager: 1.5-9 (pve-manager/1.5/4728)
running kernel: 2.6.24-11-pve
proxmox-ve-2.6.24: 1.5-23
pve-kernel-2.6.24-11-pve: 2.6.24-23
pve-kernel-2.6.18-2-pve: 2.6.18-5
qemu-server: 1.1-14
pve-firmware: 1.0-5
libpve-storage-perl: 1.0-13
vncterm: 0.9-2
vzctl: 3.0.23-1pve11
vzdump: 1.2-5
vzprocps: 2.0.11-1dso2
vzquota: 3.0.11-1
pve-qemu-kvm: 0.12.4-1
proxmox:~#

As write-through:
proxmox:~# pveperf
CPU BOGOMIPS: 36266.74
REGEX/SECOND: 642373
HD SIZE: 66.93 GB (/dev/mapper/pve-root)
BUFFERED READS: 231.23 MB/sec
AVERAGE SEEK TIME: 4.53 ms
FSYNCS/SECOND: 159.03
DNS EXT: 131.92 ms
DNS INT: 111.74 ms (mydomain.com)
proxmox:~#

As write-back:
proxmox:~# pveperf
CPU BOGOMIPS: 36266.75
REGEX/SECOND: 640717
HD SIZE: 66.93 GB (/dev/mapper/pve-root)
BUFFERED READS: 230.52 MB/sec
AVERAGE SEEK TIME: 4.53 ms
FSYNCS/SECOND: 3133.45
DNS EXT: 131.92 ms
DNS INT: 111.74 ms (mydomain.com)
proxmox:~#

Thanks to Proxmox team!