Hello everyone!
I am hoping someone could help me with a problem, I have with Proxmox VE 3.1 and my server machine at home. The problem I have is that whenever I install Proxmox it somehow degrades my raid setup.
The server has a built-in raid card, that I know works because I had Windows Server 2008 R2 on the machine earlier, and I just recently decided to clear the drives and install Proxmox, which I'm hoping could make my dreams come true.
So after I cleared the drives via an external USB converter connected to my desktop computer, the drives showed up as 'unallocated' in Windows so I thought they're ready to go.
I plug them back into the server and re-create the raid configuration and they show up as online after I initialized them, so I go ahead reboot the machine and boot the Proxmox CD and go through the extremely easy installation process, which at the end says that the installation was successfull.
And I reboot again, and then when my raid setup scans the harddrives and they show up as 'degraded' and then it goes on a little bit further and it can't find the boot sector/drive and just stops and asks for a boot media.
For those who wants to know the specifics of the server it's noted below:
Fujitsu Primergy TX100 S3p.
Intel Xeon 4 x 3,1 GHz.
Ram: 8 GB.
HDD: 500 GB x 2 in Raid 1.
LSI raid controller, I don't know the version, I can look it up later.
I searched on the Proxmox forums, and I found this old thread but I doesn't really say how he/she fixed it, the staff just told him to use software raid instead, is that really a reliable option? And that poster wrote that he had an S3 and I have an S3p.
I don't know the difference, but the place I bought the server from clearly states in the description that it has a raid controller wich supports RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10.
Can really fake raid controllers support raid 10?
http://forum.proxmox.com/threads/12078-Raid-1-fujtsu-tx-100-s3
And it even says so on the Fujitsu website.
http://www.fujitsu.com/fts/products/computing/servers/primergy/tower/tx100/index.html
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[TH="bgcolor: #F2F2F2, align: left"]I/O controller onboard[/TH]
[TD="align: left"]4 port SATA with RAID 0/1/10 for HDDs
Intel® 82574L + Intel® 82579LM onboard
2 x 10/100/1000 Mbit/s Ethernet[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
I am hoping someone could help me with a problem, I have with Proxmox VE 3.1 and my server machine at home. The problem I have is that whenever I install Proxmox it somehow degrades my raid setup.
The server has a built-in raid card, that I know works because I had Windows Server 2008 R2 on the machine earlier, and I just recently decided to clear the drives and install Proxmox, which I'm hoping could make my dreams come true.
So after I cleared the drives via an external USB converter connected to my desktop computer, the drives showed up as 'unallocated' in Windows so I thought they're ready to go.
I plug them back into the server and re-create the raid configuration and they show up as online after I initialized them, so I go ahead reboot the machine and boot the Proxmox CD and go through the extremely easy installation process, which at the end says that the installation was successfull.
And I reboot again, and then when my raid setup scans the harddrives and they show up as 'degraded' and then it goes on a little bit further and it can't find the boot sector/drive and just stops and asks for a boot media.
For those who wants to know the specifics of the server it's noted below:
Fujitsu Primergy TX100 S3p.
Intel Xeon 4 x 3,1 GHz.
Ram: 8 GB.
HDD: 500 GB x 2 in Raid 1.
LSI raid controller, I don't know the version, I can look it up later.
I searched on the Proxmox forums, and I found this old thread but I doesn't really say how he/she fixed it, the staff just told him to use software raid instead, is that really a reliable option? And that poster wrote that he had an S3 and I have an S3p.
I don't know the difference, but the place I bought the server from clearly states in the description that it has a raid controller wich supports RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10.
Can really fake raid controllers support raid 10?
http://forum.proxmox.com/threads/12078-Raid-1-fujtsu-tx-100-s3
And it even says so on the Fujitsu website.
http://www.fujitsu.com/fts/products/computing/servers/primergy/tower/tx100/index.html
[TABLE="class: standard, width: 549"]
[TR]
[TH="bgcolor: #F2F2F2, align: left"]I/O controller onboard[/TH]
[TD="align: left"]4 port SATA with RAID 0/1/10 for HDDs
Intel® 82574L + Intel® 82579LM onboard
2 x 10/100/1000 Mbit/s Ethernet[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]