HP DL385p Gen8 \ Fujitsu RX300 S6

[StefanT]

Hi,

I have the following setup:

1 x Dell C6320 ( 4 nodes, each with 2 x Xeon E5-2690 & 256GB RAM DDR4, 2 SFP+ ports & 2 Gbit RJ45 ports ) whereon I want to setup a HA Cluster with Proxmox
( no raid controller, I won't use any storage on C6320, except for the hypervisor)

1 x HP DL 385p ( 2 x Opteron 6376, 8 x 8GB RAM, HP P420i RAID controller with 2GB mem & BBU, 2 SFP+ ports ( HP 530FLR-SFP+ ) + 2 SFP+ ports ( Intel X520-DA2 )
19 x 900GB HDD 6G SAS HGST
6 x 1TB SSD SATA Samsung
to be used with FreeNAS as storage for the HA Cluster

1 x Fujitsu RX300 S6 ( 2 x E5630, 16GB RAM, LSI SAS 6Gb/s PCIe 512MB RAID controller, 4 SAS 3G 15k 146GB & 2x 4TB WD RED SATA ) as a storage for backups

1 x HP MicroServer Gen10 Plus ( Xeon E2224 & 16GB RAM, HPE Smart Array S100i SR Gen10) with 4 x 8TB WD RED SATA for offsite backups.

I've read that FreeNAS is not working very well with P420i controller used in HBA mode.
What you recommend ?
Using the controller in RAID mode would offer a better performance (with HP SSD Smart Path) in terms of IOPS etc ?


Thank you for your support!

 

[Inxsible]

What you recommend ?

IBM M1015 or the LSI equivalent 9200-8i or LSI 9204-8i or LSI 9211-8i or Dell H310 or Dell H200

Using the controller in RAID mode would offer a better performance (with HP SSD Smart Path) in terms of IOPS etc ?

Don't do this. Hardware RAID and FreeNAS don't play well together.

 

[ljvb]

Hi,

I have the following setup:

1 x Dell C6320 ( 4 nodes, each with 2 x Xeon E5-2690 & 256GB RAM DDR4, 2 SFP+ ports & 2 Gbit RJ45 ports ) whereon I want to setup a HA Cluster with Proxmox
( no raid controller, I won't use any storage on C6320, except for the hypervisor)

1 x HP DL 385p ( 2 x Opteron 6376, 8 x 8GB RAM, HP P420i RAID controller with 2GB mem & BBU, 2 SFP+ ports ( HP 530FLR-SFP+ ) + 2 SFP+ ports ( Intel X520-DA2 )
19 x 900GB HDD 6G SAS HGST
6 x 1TB SSD SATA Samsung
to be used with FreeNAS as storage for the HA Cluster

1 x Fujitsu RX300 S6 ( 2 x E5630, 16GB RAM, LSI SAS 6Gb/s PCIe 512MB RAID controller, 4 SAS 3G 15k 146GB & 2x 4TB WD RED SATA ) as a storage for backups

1 x HP MicroServer Gen10 Plus ( Xeon E2224 & 16GB RAM, HPE Smart Array S100i SR Gen10) with 4 x 8TB WD RED SATA for offsite backups.

I've read that FreeNAS is not working very well with P420i controller used in HBA mode.
What you recommend ?
Using the controller in RAID mode would offer a better performance (with HP SSD Smart Path) in terms of IOPS etc ?


Thank you for your support!

As someone else noted, the P420i is not suitable, you will regret it, even setting up multiple raid0 instances with single drives. When it fails, it will fail spectacularly. Pickup one of the HP H series controllers (you can get them dirt cheap, H220 is SAS2/6GB drives, H240 is SAS3/12GB drives, note the H240 is not a rebrand based on LSI like the 220 is and can be cross flashed with LSI firmware. The 240 is custom made for HP, but it is an HBA and should work fine. I have not installed mine yet, I picked it up a few days ago to replace my failing DL380e G8 with 2 m1015s

Message to mod: Funny, this is the second HP thread I have responded to.. so disclaimer.. I have no connection to HP, or any hardware manufacture, just the hardware I have been using for a while.. been a long time lurker, but apparently not much of a poster, so my posts get moderator flagged..