Hello,
I have a Dell Poweredge 860 connected to a Dell Powervault MD3000 with a bunch of drives. I think the card inside the Poweredge is a Perc 5/E controller. This is a production box running CentOS 5, the drives in the powervault are presented to the poweredge machine as a RAID5 hardware array - this is what I gathered through brief inspection.
I purchased a DroboPro storage box and am running nightly rsync jobs to another Linux machine that has the Drobo attached to it - I am covered in terms of backup.
I would like to shut down our production box, take out the old (small) drives, replace them with 2TB drives and then install FreeNAS on the Poweredge 860.
Questions:
1. Is the hardware mentioned above supported? (I noticed that there are two gig network cards - Broadcom NetExtremes)
2. Should I still go through the Perc5/E to set up the RAID or do I have a different alternative?
3. Is there any sense in running ZFS on top of hardware RAID5 as above or would a different setup be better?
Thanks!
OD
I have a Dell Poweredge 860 connected to a Dell Powervault MD3000 with a bunch of drives. I think the card inside the Poweredge is a Perc 5/E controller. This is a production box running CentOS 5, the drives in the powervault are presented to the poweredge machine as a RAID5 hardware array - this is what I gathered through brief inspection.
I purchased a DroboPro storage box and am running nightly rsync jobs to another Linux machine that has the Drobo attached to it - I am covered in terms of backup.
I would like to shut down our production box, take out the old (small) drives, replace them with 2TB drives and then install FreeNAS on the Poweredge 860.
Questions:
1. Is the hardware mentioned above supported? (I noticed that there are two gig network cards - Broadcom NetExtremes)
2. Should I still go through the Perc5/E to set up the RAID or do I have a different alternative?
3. Is there any sense in running ZFS on top of hardware RAID5 as above or would a different setup be better?
Thanks!
OD
