HP DL380 Gen9 Dumb RAID controller

[Dmitriy Kulikov]

Hello!

I have completely the same problem. Recently I asked a similar question in all possible ways (mailing lists, conference).
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/hp-gen9-arrays-support.52588/
I propose to share information when it appears.

Best regards,
Dmitriy



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Sorry, I found a mismatch between the lists of supported controllers of driver "ciss". On the website of the developers stated that ciss supports new disk controlers of servers HP Gen 9 (H240ar, P440ar, etc.). But in the FreeBSD 10.1 documentation their support is not mentioned. Does FreeBSD 10 support new disk controlers (H240ar, P440ar) of servers HP Gen 9?
http://cciss.sourceforge.net/
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.1R/hardware.html



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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wei Shan" <weishan.ang at gmail.com>
To: <freebsd-hardware at freebsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2015 10:15 AM
Subject: HP DL380 Gen9 Dumb RAID controller


> Hi all,
> 
> My company is currently looking to use FreeBSD ZFS for our major upcoming
> project. Our hardware vendor is HP and we are looking to purchase HP DL380
> G9 servers.
> 
> Previously we tested HP DL380 G9 servers with Smart array P420i. We were
> not able to configure the RAID controllers in by-pass mode. Thus, we
> configured each disk in RAID 0 config and we have multiple RAID 0 arrays
> for each disk.
> 
> However, I understand that ZFS needs to "see" and manage the disks directly
> and not through RAID controllers.
> 
> I have checked the FreeBSD hardware support matrix but HP H240 HBA
> controller is not listed. Can someone recommend me a "dumb" controller
> similar to H240 HBA which allows bypass mode so the ZFS can manage the
> disks directly.
> 
> HP has the following "dumb" controllers which supports pass through mode.
> 
>   1. H240
>   2. H240ar
>   3. H241
> 
> Any ideas and recommendations are greatly appreciated. We are under time
> constraint so we are unable to buy 1 server to test.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Ang Wei Shan
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