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On Sat, Jul 1, 2017 at 4:23 PM, Taiidan@×××.com <Taiidan@×××.com> wrote: |
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> I am wondering if anyone has tried this, apparently several LSI controllers |
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> support portioning out drives to VF's so the guest sees a controller with |
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> those drives attached to it. |
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> What was your experience like? and what controllers did you use? |
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> - Thanks |
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Why bother with a raid controller? Doing the processing required of |
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RAID takes essentially no processing power. You also don't need to |
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worry about the hardware failing and leaving your disks potentially |
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useless. |
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I do what you do by using a LVM volume group among a couple of SSDs. |
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Logical volumes can be any size up to the size of the entire |
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collection. There is additional functionality in LVM that you may be |
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interested in. |
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I have interacted with one (the process of turning it off). The menu |
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is usable but not as good as a simple CLI interface. It seems to mimic |
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the most basic functionality of LVM - you create groupings of physical |
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disks and then split them into logical disks. I would highly recommend |
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reading about LVM to know what else is possible that these controllers |
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likely do not or can not implement. |
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R0b0t1. |
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