Recommended VMware compatible Hardware RAID Controller?
That link brought it up fine this time. This card offers 8 ports and RAID 6. The Adaptec is 4 port and doesn't support RAID6. For an extra two hundred dollars the additional flexibility could be...
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John Pohlman wrote: Current production model is a P410, the P410i is now the onboard model. It's definitely supported as I have 4 P400 & 3 P410 HBAs in production running ESXi 5 & 5.1...
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Is the P410 (or P400) a true "hardware" RAID controller? When looking at the HP site for the P410 Opens a new window they have a "Download Drivers" page sorted by OS. Wouldn't this indicate the...
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Further digging indicates that Adaptec's "driver software" may be used to access some of the management features through a GUI. So, a controller having an OS-specific driver isn't necessarily an...
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I'm going to open a thread in Storage to solve this.
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D8805 wrote: What is the best way to ascertain the controller card is indeed a HW RAID controller? Support for non-Windows OS.
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The P400 & P410 are true enterprise RAID controllers not software based. As John White states, the easiest way is to check for non-Windows OS support. Here's a link on using it on non-HP...
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After talking with a tech at Adaptec I'll be returning the 6405E it turns out that this is a PCIe 2 x1 device and not really suitable for the application. Looking into the P400 and 410 I found a P212...
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Dad gumit. AllHDD lists items as stock that aren't. No P410 with PCIe connection available, except for a 24 Port card. Back to the drawing board.
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Okay, I have a P410. Now for the fun part. It seems that with the Supermicro motherboard I'll need to flash the P410 to firmware version 3.66 before it will work properly. Also need to load the...
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D8805 wrote: Okay, I have a P410. Now for the fun part. It seems that with the Supermicro motherboard I'll need to flash the P410 to firmware version 3.66 before it will work properly. Also need to...
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Thanks John. I had found a similar article to yours and was able to enable SSH on the host, then used WinSCP to move the .vib file over to the host's /tmp folder, and lastly, execute esxcli software...
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Firmware flash you'll want to do from an OS boot environment.http:/ Opens a new window/virtual-journeyman.john-refactored.com/2012/11/26/firmware-updates-on-vsphere-hosts
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The saga continues. First of all DO NOT INSTALL a P410 on anything except HP equipment. I mean it. Trying to make this work in an ESXi host that is NOT an HP server is ridiculously complicated and in...
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Hmmm... For some reason I assumed that it was HP hardware. HP OEMs Adaptec for the most part and Dell OEMs LSI. Sorry that question didn't get asked.
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See my third post in this thread.
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Yes, I missed that in the thread. Next time, I'd update the original message to reflect that information. This is one of the downsides of dealing with Supermicro. On the other hand, just finding a...
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The VMware (vSphere/ESXi) HCL was mentioned in the first post.. So, yes, I started there. Here's the Compatibility Page Opens a new window for the most recent controller ordered. Keeping the fingers...
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The LSI 3Ware 9750-4i is in and working! Yippie! It did require a driver installed in ESX 5.0 in order for the host to see the volume. Now I have a 5.7 TB RAID 10 Datastore to fill up. The feeling of...
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re: HP controllers - HP P410 / P812 and the like are perfectly compatible - IF you have a mainboard that accepts there firmware initialisation. Either your mainboard is compatible or it isn't it's not...
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