HP DL380 Gen9 Dumb RAID controller

[Wei Shan]

Hi Dmitriy,

Thanks for the link. It's extremely helpful.

We will proceed to test with the H240 HBA. Will update you if it works :)

Btw, We are going to run 10.2 Beta release.


On 30 July 2015 at 17:47, Dmitriy Kulikov <dmitri_koulikov at mail.ru> wrote:

>  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
>
>  ------------------------------
>  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
>
>  ------------------------------
>  ----- 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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-- 
Regards,
Ang Wei Shan