I run a pretty basic home setup. I have an HP Proliant ML350 G6:
However, I've recently done some reading about people having some really bad experiences with the p410i RAID chip. I haven't encountered any issues personally, but although I do keep weekly external backups, these are still not the types of issues that I want to "deal with when we get there."
The idea crossed my mind to completely take the p410i controller out, manually patching in the drive bays, and reinstalling Proxmox under ZFS with RAIDz1 (the RAID5 equivalent).
Is this a good idea? Is there any reason that I should prefer the hardware RAID (even under the risk of total data loss) over a software solution like ZFS? Would I run into memory usage issues, given my stats of 11 KVMs and only 24GB of memory?
To be completely honest, I'm scared. If there is one thing that I always trust to be able to rely on, its my server. Though I've run controlled tests of ZFS under a virtualized Proxmox, you never know how these things can work out in real life, and the last thing I want is to spend days rebuilding my infrastructure (which can still be a pain, even if you have backups) to find out that it's missing a key feature that I used in LVM and that ZFS doesn't support.
- 24GB DDR3 ECC RAM
- 2x Intel Xeon X5650 2.6GHz hexacore processors
- 5-drive (500GB each) hardware RAID5 array with p410i controller chip
However, I've recently done some reading about people having some really bad experiences with the p410i RAID chip. I haven't encountered any issues personally, but although I do keep weekly external backups, these are still not the types of issues that I want to "deal with when we get there."
The idea crossed my mind to completely take the p410i controller out, manually patching in the drive bays, and reinstalling Proxmox under ZFS with RAIDz1 (the RAID5 equivalent).
Is this a good idea? Is there any reason that I should prefer the hardware RAID (even under the risk of total data loss) over a software solution like ZFS? Would I run into memory usage issues, given my stats of 11 KVMs and only 24GB of memory?
To be completely honest, I'm scared. If there is one thing that I always trust to be able to rely on, its my server. Though I've run controlled tests of ZFS under a virtualized Proxmox, you never know how these things can work out in real life, and the last thing I want is to spend days rebuilding my infrastructure (which can still be a pain, even if you have backups) to find out that it's missing a key feature that I used in LVM and that ZFS doesn't support.