<div dir="ltr">Yeah, I see that (another way for M$ to gouge their customers). However, I can probably buy a hardware RAID controller for less than 2k8 seems it is > $600 wholesale last time we bought.<div><br></div><div style>
I have pitched the customer on RAID 10 based on previous RAID threads on ALE (catastrophic NRRE on rebuild causing loss of all data). I think he's going to go for that. Makes life so much simpler for me.</div><div style>
<br></div><div style>Thanks,</div><div style>GC</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com" target="_blank">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">You need to change base OS from Win7 to 2k8. RAID5 has been declared a "SERVER" item.<br></div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Greg Clifton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gccfof5@gmail.com" target="_blank">gccfof5@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Host OS is Win 7 Pro. We have a 180GB SSD for boot drive, 2x 2TB 7.2k SATA drives mirrored for backup and 6x 600GB SAS 15k drives for data acquisition of some sort. Customer asked for RAID 5 with a hot spare. Win 7 doesn't support RAID 5 in any way shape or form. So when I went Googling, I found a link to using MDRAID under Win 7 under (or in) Virtual Box. Not saying that this is the best/only solution, just polling for comments, instruction, advise and all the good stuff that ALE folks are so good with.<div>
<br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Greg </div></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 2:41 PM, JD <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jdp@algoloma.com" target="_blank">jdp@algoloma.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">It isn't clear to me - what is the hostOS and what is the clientOS?<br>
What is the purpose for the hostOS and what is the purpose of the clientOS?<br>
<br>
Why is VirtualBox involved at all? Virtualbox is great for desktop-on-desktop<br>
virtualization, but I'd never deploy it if a server was involved. There are<br>
many, better, solutions for any hostOS.<br>
<div><div><br>
<br>
<br>
On 04/17/2013 12:40 PM, Greg Clifton wrote:<br>
> OK, put down the flame throwers, this is a US Government system, so we can't<br>
> change the OS.<br>
><br>
> Here is the deal, I have a system I'm trying to complete and ship today or<br>
> tomorrow that needs RAID 5 with a hot spare. We're running an ASUS mobo with an<br>
> ASUS Pike 2008 LSI controller which only supports RAID 0, 1, 10.<br>
><br>
> This is a dual Xeon E5-2630 system with 64 GB of RAM so there should be plenty<br>
> of resources and horsepower. I'm soliciting recommendations/advise regarding<br>
> the possibility of creating a Linux software RAID 5 under virtual box.<br>
><br>
> Good idea/bad idea?<br>
> Pros/cons?<br>
> What distro would you recommend?<br>
> Never done such a thing, so a pointer to a good tutorial would be nice.<br>
><br>
> Other option would be to get a different controller which would delay shipment<br>
> and probably eat $350 of profit at least.<br>
><br>
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