HPE NS204i-p NVMe OS Boot Device Proxmox VE

[rzhh]

I am considering installing this HPE card in my DL360 Gen10. According to the data sheet, the boot device is supported by RHEL, SLES, Windows and VMware.
The card provides 2x480 GB NVMe M.2 SSDs in Raid 1 and, according to HPE, is supported without any other special drivers.
This would have the advantage that I could use all disks (8x800GB SSDs) in the ZFS storage pool and thus use the maximum possible space of the SSDs.

My question: Has anyone used this card with Proxmox VE and is satisfied with it?

https://www.hpe.com/psnow/doc/a00094638enw.html?jumpid=in_pdp-psnow-qs

 

[rzhh]

works great.

 

[zaim]

I'm planing to use the same card in the same server. Do you know if the NVMe's are changeable? Like to upgrade to 1TB drives...
And did you considered to use a RAID5 over the SSDs instead ZFS?

 

[rzhh]

Yes, there are two nvme in the package, which must be inserted into the card. The card automatically mirrors the nvme's.

 

[sutty]

Just found this and see you answered it yourself. But for others I can also confirm it works perfectly. I had to increase the space of the default boot partition in Proxmox to use 100% but then have plenty of storage. Use it for ISO storage and my containers. They all start in about 3 seconds and are very responsive on their web interfaces. Proxmox boots in seconds also. Just need to get a better CPU and more memory.. as well as convert my VM storage over to flash then as well

ML350 Gen10 and NS204i

 

[mccabeross]

Is it possible to use larger NVME's than the shipped 480GB ones with this card?

 

[zaim]

Is it possible to use larger NVME's than the shipped 480GB ones with this card?

Yes as answered at post #4

 

[mccabeross]

Yes as answered at post #4

Thanks. My apologies, it wasn't clear to me which question above was being answered.
Did you use HPE branded or 3rd party?

 

[cab]

Does it work on a HPE Proliant DL20 with NS205i-u also?
Any difference on NS204i-p and I-u?

 

[elmarconi]

Just found this and see you answered it yourself. But for others I can also confirm it works perfectly. I had to increase the space of the default boot partition in Proxmox to use 100% but then have plenty of storage. Use it for ISO storage and my containers. They all start in about 3 seconds and are very responsive on their web interfaces. Proxmox boots in seconds also. Just need to get a better CPU and more memory.. as well as convert my VM storage over to flash then as well

ML350 Gen10 and NS204i

I had to increase the space of the default boot partition in Proxmox to use 100% but then have plenty of storage.

Could you explain what/how? I'm about to install on one of these.