Promise TX4310 SATA raid - supportable?

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fortechitsolutions

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Hi, I know this is a semi-long shot question, but I wanted to ask:

I was helping someone setup a ProxVE server today (to put them out of their misery with windows server / running "VMWare Server"). The system has a tx4310 raid controller. I gather this is sort of a 'fakeraid' but a fairly well established one, which supposedly is supported in raid0/raid1 (but not raid5) configs under linux, according to hints I can see posted at,

http://boardreader.com/thread/Promise_TX4310_not_recognized_but_offici_1hsjX68c.html

which suggest that kernel > 2.6.17 has support for raid1,0 on this card, but may require tweak to the sata_promise.c module (ie, addition of appropriate PCI vendor code .. as per the post-thread above)

I'm curious if this is something which is readily doable for ProxVE, or if this is likely not ever going to happen / and I would be better to go with alternatives such as:

- debian install with ProxVE added after (ie, non-appliance "power user" install)
- don't worry about raid
- buy a better (real full HW) raid controller


Many thanks,


Tim Chipman
 
fortechitsolutions said:
Hi, I know this is a semi-long shot question, but I wanted to ask:

I was helping someone setup a ProxVE server today (to put them out of their misery with windows server / running "VMWare Server"). The system has a tx4310 raid controller. I gather this is sort of a 'fakeraid' but a fairly well established one, which supposedly is supported in raid0/raid1 (but not raid5) configs under linux, according to hints I can see posted at,

http://boardreader.com/thread/Promise_TX4310_not_recognized_but_offici_1hsjX68c.html

which suggest that kernel > 2.6.17 has support for raid1,0 on this card, but may require tweak to the sata_promise.c module (ie, addition of appropriate PCI vendor code .. as per the post-thread above)

I'm curious if this is something which is readily doable for ProxVE, or if this is likely not ever going to happen / and I would be better to go with alternatives such as:

- debian install with ProxVE added after (ie, non-appliance "power user" install)
- don't worry about raid
- buy a better (real full HW) raid controller


Many thanks,


Tim Chipman
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buy a raid controller, add hotswap frames. as you or your customer does not have to pay for the virtualization software invest the money in better hardware.

for best performance:
e.g. http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/products/Controllers/Hardware/sas/performance/SAS-5805Z/

for very basic performance:
e.g. http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/products/Controllers/Hardware/sas/entry/SAS-2405/

See also this article:
http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Adaptec_Storage_Manager
 
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