Booting into Debian 9 (Proxmox) and viewing connection parameters, the drives are shown in /dev/disk and the connection speed on the drive that is capable of SATA 3.0 correctly shows "operating at 6Gbps". The firmware says "IR" on boot, yet, finds and reports the drives WITHOUT pressing CTL-C or doing any configuring. I plugged in a 4TB SATA drive (512e) and an 8T SATA drive (512e). C an someone who knows HBAs better convince me I'm wrong given the proof I'll share below? I think this card works fine in actual passthrough mode with OEM firmware as an IR device. I'll give more info below in case needed, but here is my question. I swapped out the PERC H700 to an H200 because, like everyone, I am running ZFS.
DELL PERC H200 DISK PASSTHROUGH PRO
I just bought my first server - an R510 - though I've been a computer pro for decades (DB SW and only Home HW) Once in the Device settings we need to chose the option for Controller Management and at the way to the bottom and choose the option for Advanced Controller Management, in there you will see an option for Switch to RAID Mode, when selected it will inform you that a reboot is required, do not reboot the host just yet.Thanks - love the board - have read for dozens of hours over days but hoping for a few crumbs from the experienced to save more dozens of hours. This section of the System Setup will allow you to change the settings for any devices connected in the system, for the purpose of this article we will be focusing on the PERC H730 controller, in my servers I have two controllers, so I am selecting the one that is second in the list labelled RAID Controller in Slot 3: Dell PERC Configuration Utility The first thing we need to do is ensure that the controller itself is configured for RAID Mode, for those that do not know, the H730 controller can be configured in either RAID Mode or HBA Mode.? RAID Mode allows you to create RAID Virtual Disks to be handled by the Logical Disk Controller as part of a RAID Volume, it also allows you to configure physical disks as NON-RAID disks, HBA Mode allows you to configure disks as NON-RAID capable only, in order to set the controller as RAID Mode we need to enter the System Setup Screen, to do this reboot the host and press F2 to enter the System Setup Main Menu, once there we need to enter the Device Settings option Please note: For production environments this type of configuration is not supported
DELL PERC H200 DISK PASSTHROUGH INSTALL
Well you could boot ESXi from a single disk, the downside to that is if the disk fails then you are in a host down situation, the other option is to use two disks in a RAID1 mirror and use that for the ESXi installation.? With servers such as the R730XD you can utilise all 24 drive slots in the front of the server for Virtual SAN, and then two rear 2.5 Inch slots for your RAID 1 Mirror drives.? In my lab environment I have a similar config, I have a bunch of SSD drives used by Virtual SAN and then two 300GB 10K SAS Drives in a RAID 1 Mirror for my ESXi install and local VMFS Volume.? So how do we configure the H730 controller to support both Passthrough Disks and RAID disks? Sometimes during a deployment you might not be able to or want to install ESXi to the embedded SD Card controller on the Dell PowerEdge servers, for example if your memory configuration exceeds 512GB of RAM then installing ESXi to an SD Card would not be supported, or you may want to have a locally defined Scratch Partition on a local VMFS volume rather than using a remote Syslog or NFS Share, so what are the options?
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