Just built a new server and the drive died

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dhickman

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I just built a new server last night and I woke up this morning and it was dead. :(

Normally this would suck but no big deal.

Last night I also decided to pull the trigger and I finally purchased a license for the system.

I started the reinstall this morning and I get "Invalid: Invalid Server ID" when I put the key in.

First - I have sent an email to office@proxmox.com to see if they can reset something.

Second - since mdraid and zfs is not supported, how do you protect the systems id on a single node system?

Until I get a response from them, or someone tells me a way to get this running, I am down.

This is what I get for working on something on the weekend.

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David H Hickman
 
mir said:
Hardware raid controller.
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Hardware raid is obsolete. It does not work well with large arrays. Modern filesystems like ZFS are a much better solution.

Anyway I do not want to get into a religious discusson on raid.

Since ZFS is not an official option right now and RAID is not an option on many systems, what is a way to preserve the SYSTEM ID and License information in order to facilitate a quick cold DR scenario?

BTW I went to the MAURER site and when I use the reissue command for the license I get "Action Failed: This license key is not allowed to be reissued"

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dhh
 
dhickman said:
Hardware raid is obsolete. It does not work well with large arrays. Modern filesystems like ZFS are a much better solution.

Anyway I do not want to get into a religious discusson on raid.
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there is no religion aspect here. if you install your OS e.g. on raid1, one hard disk can fail and you just plug in a new drive when you got one and you are done without a second of downtime. your approach (single disk) is leading to a dead system so I would not call hardware raid a dead technology.

I do not think that zfs will be the long term winner (license issues), but btrfs can fill this gap in future. If you know what you are doing mdraid could be a solution for you. But you cannot get commercial support for mdraid. if you have a power loss, most mdraid installation will suffer from lost hard drive cache.

Nowadays people install the OS an single enterprise SSD with powerloss protection and believe what the datasheet is telling about reliability (e.g. Intel DC S3500).

dhickman said:
Since ZFS is not an official option right now and RAID is not an option on many systems, what is a way to preserve the SYSTEM ID and License information in order to facilitate a quick cold DR scenario?
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You can always install a system without subscription ID, using the ISO or one of the free repos.

dhickman said:
BTW I went to the MAURER site and when I use the reissue command for the license I get "Action Failed: This license key is not allowed to be reissued"

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dhh
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Yes, always contact the seller of the subscription key and I am sure that they will re-issue the key within a few hours. Self reissuing is not enabled (to prevent misuse and issues due to multiple activated servers with the same key).
 
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