Storage Question
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If I decide to put a 3rd party RAID card in there...
- Will it work with the hot-plug backplane that is currently in there?
- Will it work in the T320 itself? Assuming/hoping it would just be a plug and play.
- Will the drive lights work, or will I still have blinking amber? I know it can read SMART, but what control the lights on the drive carrier?
- Any recommendation on a particular card?
Has anyone ever done this on the T320?
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If only we could also cut the costs of the CALs of my bill, too!
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@BRRABill said:
If I decide to put a 3rd party RAID card in there...
- Will it work with the hot-plug backplane that is currently in there?
Yes, that is just hardware.
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@BRRABill said:
- Will it work in the T320 itself? Assuming/hoping it would just be a plug and play.
All it gets from the server is power
It's a standard PCIe device. As long as the computer is a PC and supports PCIe, it has to. -
@scottalanmiller said:
@BRRABill said:
If only we could also cut the costs of the CALs of my bill, too!
Well.... Linux.
My head has gone from
9am: swimming
2pm: spinning
5pm: almost off axisLinux would be the end of me.
I'm finding out if I can take 1 license off the paperwork. Maybe I'll order the 3rd party RAID controller and my day will be complete!
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@BRRABill said:
- Will the drive lights work, or will I still have blinking amber? I know it can read SMART, but what control the lights on the drive carrier?
Not likely, the lights are not part of the controller or the drives. that would be part of the proprietary mechanisms.
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@BRRABill said:
- Any recommendation on a particular card?
LSI with 1GB or more of cache. You can get one that basically is the H710 but directly from LSI without being rebranded or having the Dell firmware.
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Have we even talked about what hypervisor to use yet? I think it was HyperV but don't remember if we saw that or I just imagined it.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Not likely, the lights are not part of the controller or the drives. that would be part of the proprietary mechanisms.
Not likely the amber will keep blinking, or not likely any lights will work at all.
Also, with that kind of setup, where do the SMART alerts go? I'm just used to using DELL stuff and it all goes through their Server Admin product.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Have we even talked about what hypervisor to use yet? I think it was HyperV but don't remember if we saw that or I just imagined it.
Yes, going with Hyper-V.
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@BRRABill said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Not likely, the lights are not part of the controller or the drives. that would be part of the proprietary mechanisms.
Not likely the amber will keep blinking, or not likely any lights will work at all.
I'd expect no lights at all.
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@BRRABill said:
Also, with that kind of setup, where do the SMART alerts go? I'm just used to using DELL stuff and it all goes through their Server Admin product.
Up the stack. The drives report to the RAID card. The RAID card reports to the driver in the OS. The driver reports to the OS.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@BRRABill said:
Also, with that kind of setup, where do the SMART alerts go? I'm just used to using DELL stuff and it all goes through their Server Admin product.
Up the stack. The drives report to the RAID card. The RAID card reports to the driver in the OS. The driver reports to the OS.
The OS in this case is Hyper-V
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Right, OS/Hypervisor. Whatever is sitting on the hardware.
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Again, excuse my DELL ignorance here, but on our current servers, if the hard drive was going, the server would turn orange, and OMSA would throw up an error.
I am assuming with a 3rd party RAID controller that all will be gone.
So in your setups, how is this handled? One of my original things was to keep the predictive alerts in place, and it seems like this solution is moving away from that.
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you'll have to setup alerts through Hyper-V to notify you when there is a problem. The Dell stuff wouldn't work any more.
Perhaps you want to see if the H170 will support non Dell drives. Might be more in line with what you want.
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@BRRABill said:
Again, excuse my DELL ignorance here, but on our current servers, if the hard drive was going, the server would turn orange, and OMSA would throw up an error.
I am assuming with a 3rd party RAID controller that all will be gone.
Correct, all gone.
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@Dashrender said:
you'll have to setup alerts through Hyper-V to notify you when there is a problem. The Dell stuff wouldn't work any more.
Perhaps you want to see if the H170 will support non Dell drives. Might be more in line with what you want.
XByte might have some more answers about that. They are dell reseller that works on the new and used side. They might be able to tell you what 3rd party SSD work with different Dell RAID cards.
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@Dashrender said:
Perhaps you want to see if the H170 will support non Dell drives. Might be more in line with what you want.
You mean the DELL H710?
Apparently they are all the same.
Though there are a lot of people who do use 3rd parrty drives. I guess it all depends.
