PVE 5.0 on a DELL Poweredge C1100 - RAID

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stefanzman

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Hello,

Trying to install on PVE 5.0 on a DELL Poweredge C1100, and it does not appear to be detecting the hardware raid array correctly. While it does see that 4 disks, they are detected individually - even though a valid RAID10 array is defined and operational.

Base on the RAID BIOS config, it shows Intel Matrix Storage Mgr 8.9.1. See screenshot below:

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During installation, the available targets list all 4 disks (not a single volume):

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After setup, the software is loaded on the first disk:

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Then the array is in a degraded state with that disk excluded.

Is there any way to get PVE 5.x to see the full RAID array and not break it? I suppose I could use the ZFS RAID 10 option of PVE, but I am thinking the hardware RAID would be much faster.

Any advice or guidance would be greatly appreciated.

Stefan
 
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AFAICS you have a "fake" (or software-) raid which is not supported by linux and not the same as a "real" hardware raid. it depends on the os to have the correct drivers (mostly windows only) to correctly use the raid
 
Yes. I think you may be correct. According to Wikipedia:

Matrix RAID is a computer storage technology marketed by Intel. It is a firmware, rather than hardware or software, RAID system.

It if is firmware, they that is just "software RAID" built into the chipset. They go on to say:

Linux supports Matrix RAID through device mapper (DM-RAID) for RAID 0, 1 and 10, and Linux MD RAID for RAID 0, 1, 10, and 5.

So, I guess my question would be should I try to load this driver separately to use the ZFS RAID option built-in to PVE 5.0?
 
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