Is Dell PERC H710P supported??

[santanu_00]

Dear all,

I am a very new user of Proxmox and still basically going through the docs and stuff to get my head around installation, configuration etc.
I have a Dell T410 with a PERC H710P (S100) RAID card installed (which is configured as RAID-1 and was running ESXi before without any issue) and I'll be using that for my Proxmox. During the installation, it's detecting the virtual drive just fine:



and I chose xfs (as figured zfs is not something for H/W RAID) as the file system. Installation starts but within few secs it fails with below message:



Any idea what am I missing here? Does it not work with H/W RAID at all?
Any help would be very much appreciated.

-S

 

[waltar]

Having 2x T620 with h710p and actual pve installed, no problem. But we don't edit these 5 default empty fields at all and just choose1x xfs + 1x ext4 there.

 

[santanu_00]

Having 2x T620 with h710p and actual pve installed, no problem. But we don't edit these 5 default empty fields at all and just choose1x xfs + 1x ext4 there.

same here - all I changed the filesystem from default ext4 to xfs but it's keep failling very consistency. The `hdsize` is comingh populated for me though. I'm trying Proxmox v8.4, if that matters at all.

 

[gfngfn256]

default ext4

Does ext4 work?

 

[alexskysilk]

Any idea what am I missing here? Does it not work with H/W RAID at all?

It does, but the installer you're using has an issue with LSI cards. use the pve8.1 iso instead (dont worry, you'll be able to dist-upgrade to current.)

 

[santanu_00]

It does, but the installer you're using has an issue with LSI cards. use the pve8.1 iso instead (dont worry, you'll be able to dist-upgrade to current.)

cannot find 8.1 anymore..... the previous availabe one is 7.4
https://enterprise.proxmox.com/iso/

Any idea where can I download it from?

 

[alexskysilk]

yeah it looks like the devs pulled the iso for some reason. yes, you can do the same with 7.4

 

[gfngfn256]

This looks like 8.0.1 from https://web.archive.org/web/20230711214615/https://enterprise.proxmox.com/iso/

 

[santanu_00]

yeah it looks like the devs pulled the iso for some reason. yes, you can do the same with 7.4

finally managed to install v7.4; wasted almost the entire day trying out the latest versiion, due to lack of correct info on the site.
But then I messed it up upgrading from v7 to v8.

This looks like 8.0.1 from https://web.archive.org/web/20230711214615/https://enterprise.proxmox.com/iso/

I'll try fresh with v8.0.1 tomorrow morning

 

[gfngfn256]

This looks like 8.1.2 https://archive.org/details/proxmox-ve_8.1-2

PLEASE BE AWARE THAT ALL THESE ARE NOT FROM OFFICIAL PROXMOX DOWNLOAD SITE - THEY ARE FROM THE INDEPENDENT ARCHIVE.ORG !!!

I would really have hoped - that Proxmox retain access to their downloads for a longer period. I know that Proxmox uses a rolling release model, but I've seen many cases where a previous, but sadly non-available version is required for initial install.

 

[jdancer]

Better off flashing it to IT-Mode per https://fohdeesha.com/docs/perc.html

Do NOT skip any steps and take your time. Make sure you record the SAS address.

Don't forget to flash a BIOS and/or ROM on it if you want to boot from the drives.

Been running it production with no issues.

 

[santanu_00]

Better off flashing it to IT-Mode per https://fohdeesha.com/docs/perc.html

I tried but I didn't get the exact match for my card, so gave up that idea. But now managed to install v8.0 and upgraded to v8.4 later on. Wanted to have ZFS but okay for now.