Hello guys. My team 's got refurbished HP DL380 Gen9 boxes, all coming with a P440ar controller and a 12LFF front drive cage. We are planning to run TrueNAS as storage provider as well as hypervisor to contain all business VMs and a shared directory for branch offices.
I know lots of discussions went around HBA or server RAID, but seems there were few threads about those newer HP hardware. Since we have only LFF drives and backplane, might not find an extra backplane to install the SFF drives we need to install the TrueNAS OS (expecting it's a hardware RAID1 on a separate controller).
Now that it's only the P440ar (should have RAID mode and HBA mode). I am testing out installing TrueNAS on a RAID1 array, then adding individual single-drive RAID0 as vdevs. We do run a business. Is it reliable or risky? We're on TrueNAS core 12.0 u2.1. Appreciate for the help!
I know lots of discussions went around HBA or server RAID, but seems there were few threads about those newer HP hardware. Since we have only LFF drives and backplane, might not find an extra backplane to install the SFF drives we need to install the TrueNAS OS (expecting it's a hardware RAID1 on a separate controller).
Now that it's only the P440ar (should have RAID mode and HBA mode). I am testing out installing TrueNAS on a RAID1 array, then adding individual single-drive RAID0 as vdevs. We do run a business. Is it reliable or risky? We're on TrueNAS core 12.0 u2.1. Appreciate for the help!