Re: using PERC H700 for JBOD?
"D. Jared Dominguez" <[email protected]>
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The H830 is for external direct attached storage. Does the H330 provide the desired feature set? The H730 is a higher end card designed for advanced hardware RAID. --Jared On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 05:06:00PM -0600, Cameron Smith wrote: >The newish H830 offers Non-Raid (JBOD). Not a fit for your application but just >throwing this out there for others reference: >http://i.dell.com/sites/doccontent/shared-content/data-sheets/en/Documents/ >Dell-PowerEdge-RAID-Controller-H830.pdf > > >Cameron Smith >Technical Operations Manager >Network Redux, LLC >5200 SW Macadam Ave Ste 450 >Portland, Oregon 97239 >Cell: 503-926-4928 > >On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Dan Yasny <[email protected]> wrote: > > You can definitely create a bunch of raid0 using single drives. However, > this is not going to give the host kernel and it's modules (ZFS etc) direct > access to the disks and isn't really JBOD. You are still going through the > controller, using the controller cache. > > This is not a great solution for ZFS, and it has been mentioned as such too > many times over the years. > > I wish Dell finally came through with a real JBOD mode in those PERCs, but > afaik it's still low priority for them. > > On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 4:37 PM, Bond Masuda <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've read in various places online that it is not possible to use PERC > H700 for JBOD for folks who want to use LVM2 or ZFS to glue their own > storage together instead of RAID in the H700. I recall with the old > PERC6/E, I could simply create a RAID-0 VD with 1 disk and in effect > access each of those disks individually. I remember specifically doing > this on a PE2970 connected to a MD1000 array. Is that not possible with > the H700? > > Bond > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-PowerEdge mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-PowerEdge mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge > > > >_______________________________________________ >Linux-PowerEdge mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge -- Jared Domínguez OS Architect Linux Engineering Dell | Client Software Group